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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..

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..

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

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

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

Straitened :: Strait (v. t.) To put to difficulties.

Strait :: Straits (pl. ) of Strai.

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

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

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

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..

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

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

Strait :: Strait (superl.) Difficult; distressful; straited.

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

Straitening :: Straitened (imp. & p. p.) of Straite.

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

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

Strait-laced :: Strait-laced (a.) Bound with stays.

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

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