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Meaning of "strait" and the crossword clue

- Having bounds
- Narrow channel
- Narrow sea pass
- Narrow waterway
- Shipping route
- Sound honest when speaking
- A variant of Straight.
- Narrow; not broad.
- Tight; close; closely fitting.
- Close; intimate; near; familiar.
- Strict; scrupulous; rigorous.
- Difficult; distressful; straited.
- Parsimonious; niggargly; mean.
- Strictly; rigorously.
- A narrow pass or passage.
- 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.
- A neck of land; an isthmus.
- Fig.: A condition of narrowness or restriction; doubt; distress; difficulty; poverty; perplexity; -- sometimes in the plural; as, reduced to great straits.
- To put to difficulties.


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