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

Straightness :: Straightly (adv.) A variant of Straitly. See 1st 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..

Camisole :: Camisole (n.) A kind of straitjacket.

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

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

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

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..

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

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

Strait :: Straits (pl. ) of Strai.

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

Ferry :: Ferry (v. t.) To carry or transport over a river, strait, or other narrow water, in a boat..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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