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Definition of strait

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

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

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

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

Angust :: Angust (a.) Narrow; strait.

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.

Disjoint :: Disjoint (v. t.) Difficult situation; dilemma; strait.

Down :: Down (prep.) A road for shipping in the English Channel or Straits of Dover, near Deal, employed as a naval rendezvous in time of war..

Strait :: 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..

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

Straiten :: Straiten (v. t.) To make strait; to make narrow; hence, to contract; to confine..

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