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

Strait :: Strait (superl.) Narrow; not broad.

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

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..

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

Easy :: Easy (v. t.) Not straitened as to money matters; as, the market is easy; -- opposed to tight..

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

Narrow :: Narrow (n.) A narrow passage; esp., a contracted part of a stream, lake, or sea; a strait connecting two bodies of water; -- usually in the plural; as, The Narrows of New York harbor..

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

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

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

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..

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

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..

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

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..

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..

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

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

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