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

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..

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..

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

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

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

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

Strait-waistcoat :: Straitness (n.) The quality or condition of being strait; especially, a pinched condition or situation caused by poverty; as, the straitnessof their circumstances..

Strait-laced :: Strait-jacket (n.) A dress of strong materials for restraining maniacs or those who are violently delirious. It has long sleeves, which are closed at the ends, confining the hands, and may be tied behind the back..

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

Straiten :: Straiten (v. t.) To make tense, or tight; to tighten..

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

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..

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

Fata Morgana :: Fata Morgana () A kind of mirage by which distant objects appear inverted, distorted, displaced, or multiplied. It is noticed particularly at the Straits of Messina, between Calabria and Sicily..

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

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

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

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..

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..

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