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Definition of strait

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

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

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

Willywaw :: Willywaw (n.) A whirlwind, or whirlwind squall, encountered in the Straits of Magellan..

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..

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..

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

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..

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

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

Narrow :: Narrow (v. i.) To become less broad; to contract; to become narrower; as, the sea narrows into a strait..

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

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

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

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

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

Strait-laced :: Strait-laced (a.) Bound with stays.

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

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

Strait-jacket :: Strait-handed (a.) Parsimonious; sparing; niggardly.

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