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Strake :: Strait-waistcoat (n.) Same as Strait-jacket.

Narrow :: Narrow (v. i.) To become less broad; to contract; to become narrower; as, the sea narrows into a strait..

Straitly :: Straitly (adv.) In a strait manner; narrowly; strictly; rigorously.

Easy :: Easy (v. t.) Not straitened as to money matters; as, the market is easy; -- opposed to tight..

Willywaw :: Willywaw (n.) A whirlwind, or whirlwind squall, encountered in the Straits of Magellan..

Impaction :: Impaction (n.) An immovable packing; (Med.), a lodgment of something in a strait or passage of the body; as, impaction of the fetal head in the strait of the pelvis; impaction of food or feces in the intestines of man or beast..

Strait :: Strait (superl.) Narrow; not broad.

Transfrete :: Transfrete (v. i.) To pass over a strait or narrow sea.

Strait :: Strait (a.) A neck of land; an isthmus.

Strait :: Strait (superl.) Close; intimate; near; familiar.

Hellespont :: Hellespont (n.) A narrow strait between Europe and Asia, now called the Daradanelles. It connects the Aegean Sea and the sea of Marmora..

Strait :: Strait (superl.) Difficult; distressful; straited.

Distrait :: Distrait (a.) Absent-minded; lost in thought; abstracted.

Pinch :: Pinch (v. t.) Figuratively: To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve; to distress; as, to be pinched for money..

Coarctate :: Coarctate (a.) To press together; to crowd; to straiten; to confine closely.

Strait-laced :: Strait-laced (a.) Restricted; stiff; constrained.

Fretum :: Fretum (n.) A strait, or arm of the sea..

Euripus :: Euripus (n.) A strait; a narrow tract of water, where the tide, or a current, flows and reflows with violence, as the ancient fright of this name between Eubaea and Baeotia. Hence, a flux and reflux..

Fata Morgana :: Fata Morgana () A kind of mirage by which distant objects appear inverted, distorted, displaced, or multiplied. It is noticed particularly at the Straits of Messina, between Calabria and Sicily..

Straightener :: Straighten (v. t.) A variant of Straiten.

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