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Definition of strait

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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..

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

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

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

Transfrete :: Transfrete (v. i.) To pass over a strait or narrow sea.

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

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..

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..

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..

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

Press :: Press (v.) To straiten; to distress; as, to be pressed with want or hunger..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Strait :: Straits (pl. ) of Strai.

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