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Strait :: Strait (a.) A narrow pass or passage.

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..

Channel :: Channel (n.) The deeper part of a river, harbor, strait, etc., where the main current flows, or which affords the best and safest passage for vessels..

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

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

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

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..

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

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

Straitly :: Strait-laced (a.) Rigid in opinion; strict in manners or morals.

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

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

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

Strait :: Strait (superl.) Parsimonious; niggargly; mean.

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

Strait :: Straits (pl. ) of Strai.

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..

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

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

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

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