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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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..

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..

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

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

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

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

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..

Pinch :: Pinch (v. t.) Figuratively: To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve; to distress; as, to be pinched for money..

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