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Streighten :: Streight (a., n., & adv.) See 2nd Strait..

Belt :: Belt (n.) A narrow passage or strait; as, the Great Belt and the Lesser Belt, leading to the Baltic Sea..

Bosporus :: Bosporus (n.) A strait or narrow sea between two seas, or a lake and a seas; as, the Bosporus (formerly the Thracian Bosporus) or Strait of Constantinople, between the Black Sea and Sea of Marmora; the Cimmerian Bosporus, between the Black Sea and Sea of Azof..

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

Strait :: Straits (pl. ) of Strai.

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..

Angust :: Angust (a.) Narrow; strait.

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

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

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..

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

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..

Channel :: Channel (n.) A strait, or narrow sea, between two portions of lands; as, the British Channel..

Camisole :: Camisole (n.) A kind of straitjacket.

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

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

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

Scant :: Scant (v. t.) To limit; to straiten; to treat illiberally; to stint; as, to scant one in provisions; to scant ourselves in the use of necessaries..

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

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

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