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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..

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

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

Straiten :: Straiten (v. t.) To make tense, or tight; to tighten..

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

Narrow :: Narrow (superl.) Limited as to means; straitened; pinching; as, narrow circumstances..

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

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..

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

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

Straightener :: Straighten (v. t.) A variant of Straiten.

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

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

Straits :: Strait (adv.) Strictly; rigorously.

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

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..

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..

Strake :: Strait-waistcoat (n.) Same as Strait-jacket.

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

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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