Definition of strait

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Strait (a.) A narrow pass or passage.

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Strait-laced :: Strait-laced (a.) Bound with stays.
Overstraitly :: Overstraitly (adv.) Too straitly or strictly.
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..
Angust :: Angust (a.) Narrow; strait.
Strait :: Straits (pl. ) of Strai.
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..
Strait :: Strait (a.) A variant of Straight.
Bosporus :: Bosporus (n.) A strait or narrow sea between two seas, or a lake and a seas; as, the Bosporus (formerly the Thracian Bosporus) or Strait of Constantinople, between the Black Sea and Sea of Marmora; the Cimmerian Bosporus, between the Black Sea and Sea of Azof..
Straight-out :: Straightness (n.) A variant of Straitness.
Straight :: Straight (a.) A variant of Strait, a..
Straiten :: Straiten (v. t.) To make strait; to make narrow; hence, to contract; to confine..
Strait :: Strait (superl.) Narrow; not broad.
Coarctate :: Coarctate (a.) To press together; to crowd; to straiten; to confine closely.
Angustation :: Angustation (n.) The act of making narrow; a straitening or contacting.
Straiten :: Straitening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Straite.
Distrait :: Distrait (a.) Absent-minded; lost in thought; abstracted.
Tighten :: Tighten (v. t.) To draw tighter; to straiten; to make more close in any manner.
Willywaw :: Willywaw (n.) A whirlwind, or whirlwind squall, encountered in the Straits of Magellan..
Strait :: Strait (superl.) Strict; scrupulous; rigorous.
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