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Scrimp :: Scrimp (v. t.) To make too small or short; to limit or straiten; to put on short allowance; to scant; to contract; to shorten; as, to scrimp the pattern of a coat..

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

Straitness :: Straitly (adv.) Closely; intimately.

Straits :: Strait (adv.) Strictly; rigorously.

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

Debouchure :: Debouchure (n.) The outward opening of a river, of a valley, or of a strait..

Down :: Down (prep.) A road for shipping in the English Channel or Straits of Dover, near Deal, employed as a naval rendezvous in time of war..

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..

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

Press :: Press (v.) To straiten; to distress; as, to be pressed with want or hunger..

Disjoint :: Disjoint (v. t.) Difficult situation; dilemma; strait.

Strait :: Strait (a.) Fig.: A condition of narrowness or restriction; doubt; distress; difficulty; poverty; perplexity; -- sometimes in the plural; as, reduced to great straits..

Strait :: Strait (a.) A (comparatively) narrow passageway connecting two large bodies of water; -- often in the plural; as, the strait, or straits, of Gibraltar; the straits of Magellan; the strait, or straits, of Mackinaw..

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

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

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

Strait-laced :: Strait-laced (a.) Bound with stays.

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

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..

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

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