meaning of strait

1. A variant of Straight.
2.
Narrow; not broad.
3.
Tight; close; closely fitting.
4.
Close; intimate; near; familiar.
5.
Strict; scrupulous; rigorous.
6.
Difficult; distressful; straited.
7.
Parsimonious; niggargly; mean.
8.
Strictly; rigorously.
9.
A narrow pass or passage.
10.
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.
11.
A neck of land; an isthmus.
12.
Fig. : A condition of narrowness or restriction; doubt; distress; difficulty; poverty; perplexity; -- sometimes in the plural; as, reduced to great straits.
13.
To put to difficulties.
14.
a narrow channel of the sea joining two larger bodies of water


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