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

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

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

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

Strait :: Strait (superl.) Tight; close; closely fitting.

Straitened :: Strait (v. t.) To put to difficulties.

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

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

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..

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

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

Sound :: Sound (n.) A narrow passage of water, or a strait between the mainland and an island; also, a strait connecting two seas, or connecting a sea or lake with the ocean; as, the Sound between the Baltic and the german Ocean; Long Island Sound..

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

Strein :: Streighten (v. t.) See Straiten.

Straight-out :: Straightness (n.) A variant of Straitness.

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

Angustation :: Angustation (n.) The act of making narrow; a straitening or contacting.

Straightness :: Straightly (adv.) A variant of Straitly. See 1st 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 (a.) A narrow pass or passage.

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