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

Streighten :: Streight (a., n., & adv.) See 2nd Strait..

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

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

Fleece :: Fleece (v. t.) To strip of money or other property unjustly, especially by trickery or fraud; to bring to straits by oppressions and exactions..

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

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

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

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

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

Scant :: Scant (v. t.) To limit; to straiten; to treat illiberally; to stint; as, to scant one in provisions; to scant ourselves in the use of necessaries..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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