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Strait   /streɪt/   Listen
noun
Strait  n.  (pl. straits)  
1.
A narrow pass or passage. "He brought him through a darksome narrow strait To a broad gate all built of beaten gold." "Honor travels in a strait so narrow Where one but goes abreast."
2.
Specifically: (Geog.) 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. "We steered directly through a large outlet which they call a strait, though it be fifteen miles broad."
3.
A neck of land; an isthmus. (R.) "A dark strait of barren land."
4.
Fig.: A condition of narrowness or restriction; doubt; distress; difficulty; poverty; perplexity; sometimes in the plural; as, reduced to great straits. "For I am in a strait betwixt two." "Let no man, who owns a Providence, grow desperate under any calamity or strait whatsoever." "Ulysses made use of the pretense of natural infirmity to conceal the straits he was in at that time in his thoughts."


verb
Strait  v. t.  To put to difficulties. (Obs.)


adjective
Strait  adj.  A variant of Straight. (Obs.)


Strait  adj.  (compar. straiter; superl. straitest)  
1.
Narrow; not broad. "Strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it." "Too strait and low our cottage doors."
2.
Tight; close; closely fitting.
3.
Close; intimate; near; familiar. (Obs.) "A strait degree of favor."
4.
Strict; scrupulous; rigorous. "Some certain edicts and some strait decrees." "The straitest sect of our religion."
5.
Difficult; distressful; straited. "To make your strait circumstances yet straiter."
6.
Parsimonious; niggargly; mean. (Obs.) "I beg cold comfort, and you are so strait, And so ingrateful, you deny me that."


adverb
Strait  adv.  Strictly; rigorously. (Obs.)





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"Strait" Quotes from Famous Books



... she sprung. As swift her ent'ring consort flew, And plum'd, and kindled at the view. Their wings, their souls, embracing, meet, Their hearts with answ'ring measure beat, Half lost in sacred sweets, and bless'd With raptures felt, but ne'er express'd. Strait to her humble roof she led The partner of her spotless bed; Her young, a flutt'ring pair, arise, Their welcome sparkling in their eyes, Transported, to their sire they bound, And hang, with speechless action, round. In ...
— The Governess - The Little Female Academy • Sarah Fielding
... have missed it for a large sum of money; but rather than repeat it, I would return to Russia via Alaska, swim Bering Strait, and finish my journey on ...
— Last of the Great Scouts - The Life Story of William F. Cody ["Buffalo Bill"] • Helen Cody Wetmore
... Wilford could not help detecting her anxiety that all should be settled this time. Helen, on the contrary, was unusually cool, confirming him in his opinion that she was strong-minded and self-willed, and making him resolve to remove Katy as soon as possible from her strait-laced influence. When talking with his mother he had said that if Katy had told him "yes," he should probably place her at some fashionable school for a year or two; but on the way to Silverton he had changed his mind. He could not wait a year, and if he married Katy at all, it should ...
— Family Pride - Or, Purified by Suffering • Mary J. Holmes
... strait to end his loving strife He took Sweet Williame for his wife. The like before was never seen, A ...
— In Doublet and Hose - A Story for Girls • Lucy Foster Madison
... power not to listen to them, and the soul can only think of what it hears when Jesus speaks to it. Moreover, all the discussions on this subject are uncertain, for one does not enter of one's own will into the strait way, as the Church calls it, we are led, and even thrown into it often against the will, and resistance is impossible, phenomena occur, and nothing in the world has power to check them; witness Saint Teresa, who, resist as she would by humility, fell into ecstasy ...
— En Route • J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans


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