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Strait (a.) A variant of Straight.
Strait (superl.) Narrow; not broad.
Strait (superl.) Tight; close; closely fitting.
Strait (superl.) Close; intimate; near; familiar.
Strait (superl.) Strict; scrupulous; rigorous.
Strait (superl.) Difficult; distressful; straited.
Strait (superl.) Parsimonious; niggargly; mean.
Strait (adv.) Strictly; rigorously.
Strait (a.) A narrow pass or passage.
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.
Strait (a.) A neck of land; an isthmus.
Strait (a.) Fig.: A condition of narrowness or restriction; doubt; distress; difficulty; poverty; perplexity; -- sometimes in the plural; as, reduced to great straits.
Strait (v. t.) To put to difficulties.
Straits (pl. ) of Strait