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

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

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

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..

Strait :: Straits (pl. ) of Strai.

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

Strait :: Strait (superl.) Close; intimate; near; familiar.

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

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..

Straiten :: Straitening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Straite.

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

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

Transfretation :: Transfretation (n.) The act of passing over a strait or narrow sea.

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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