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

Ferry :: Ferry (v. t.) To carry or transport over a river, strait, or other narrow water, in a boat..

Strait :: Strait (superl.) Strict; scrupulous; rigorous.

Transfretation :: Transfretation (n.) The act of passing over a strait or narrow sea.

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.) Tight; close; closely fitting.

Tighten :: Tighten (v. t.) To draw tighter; to straiten; to make more close in any manner.

Overstraitly :: Overstraitly (adv.) Too straitly or strictly.

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

Straitening :: Straitened (imp. & p. p.) of Straite.

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

Narrow :: Narrow (superl.) Limited as to means; straitened; pinching; as, narrow circumstances..

Straiten :: Straitening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Straite.

Strelitz :: Streite (adv.) Narrowly; strictly; straitly.

Straight :: Straight (a.) A variant of Strait, a..

Straightness :: Straightly (adv.) A variant of Straitly. See 1st Straight.

Narrow :: Narrow (n.) A narrow passage; esp., a contracted part of a stream, lake, or sea; a strait connecting two bodies of water; -- usually in the plural; as, The Narrows of New York harbor..

Strait-handed :: Straiten (v. t.) To restrict; to distress or embarrass in respect of means or conditions of life; -- used chiefly in the past participle; -- as, a man straitened in his circumstances..

Fleece :: Fleece (v. t.) To strip of money or other property unjustly, especially by trickery or fraud; to bring to straits by oppressions and exactions..

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

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