'Strait' definitions:
Definition of 'strait'
From: WordNet
Definition of 'Strait'
From: GCIDE
- Strait \Strait\, adv. Strictly; rigorously. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Strait'
From: GCIDE
- Strait \Strait\, n.; pl. Straits. [OE. straight, streit, OF. estreit, estroit. See Strait, a.]
- 1. A narrow pass or passage. [1913 Webster]
- He brought him through a darksome narrow strait To a broad gate all built of beaten gold. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- Honor travels in a strait so narrow Where one but goes abreast. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- We steered directly through a large outlet which they call a strait, though it be fifteen miles broad. --De Foe. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A neck of land; an isthmus. [R.] [1913 Webster]
- A dark strait of barren land. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Fig.: A condition of narrowness or restriction; doubt; distress; difficulty; poverty; perplexity; -- sometimes in the plural; as, reduced to great straits. [1913 Webster]
- For I am in a strait betwixt two. --Phil. i. 23. [1913 Webster]
- Let no man, who owns a Providence, grow desperate under any calamity or strait whatsoever. --South. [1913 Webster]
- Ulysses made use of the pretense of natural infirmity to conceal the straits he was in at that time in his thoughts. --Broome. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Strait'
From: GCIDE
- Strait \Strait\, v. t. To put to difficulties. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'strait'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- angustifoliate,
- angustirostrate,
- angustisellate,
- angustiseptal,
- arm,
- armlet,
- bay,
- bayou,
- belt,
- bight,
- bind,
- boca,
- bottleneck,
- bound,
- bounded,
- box,
- breakers ahead,
- canal,
- cardhouse,
- cause for alarm,
- channel,
- circumscribed,
- climacteric,
- close,
- close-fitting,
- clutch,
- complication,
- conditioned,
- confined,
- confining,
- constricted,
- contingency,
- convergence of events,
- copyrighted,
- cove,
- cramp,
- cramped,
- creek,
- crisis,
- critical juncture,
- critical point,
- crossroads,
- crowded,
- crucial period,
- crunch,
- danger,
- dangerous ground,
- defile,
- demanding,
- difficult,
- dilemma,
- disciplined,
- embarrassing position,
- embarrassment,
- emergency,
- endangerment,
- estuary,
- euripus,
- exacting,
- exigency,
- extremity,
- fine how-do-you-do,
- finite,
- fjord,
- frith,
- gaping chasm,
- gathering clouds,
- gulf,
- gut,
- harbor,
- hazard,
- hell to pay,
- hinge,
- hobble,
- hot water,
- house of cards,
- how-do-you-do,
- imbroglio,
- imperilment,
- incapacious,
- incommodious,
- inlet,
- isthmian,
- isthmic,
- isthmus,
- jam,
- jeopardy,
- kyle,
- limited,
- limiting,
- loch,
- meager,
- menace,
- mess,
- mix,
- moderated,
- morass,
- mouth,
- narrow,
- narrow seas,
- narrows,
- natural harbor,
- near,
- neck,
- parlous straits,
- pass,
- patented,
- peril,
- perplexity,
- pickle,
- pinch,
- plight,
- predicament,
- prescribed,
- pretty pass,
- pretty pickle,
- pretty predicament,
- proscribed,
- push,
- quagmire,
- qualified,
- quicksand,
- reach,
- restricted,
- restricting,
- rigorous,
- risk,
- road,
- roads,
- roadstead,
- rocks ahead,
- rub,
- scant,
- scanty,
- scrape,
- slender,
- slough,
- sound,
- spot,
- squeeze,
- stew,
- sticky wicket,
- storm clouds,
- straitened,
- straits,
- swamp,
- thin ice,
- threat,
- throat,
- tight,
- tight spot,
- tight squeeze,
- tightrope,
- tricky spot,
- trouble,
- turn,
- turning,
- turning point,
- unholy mess
Words containing 'Strait'
- Straitly,
- Straitness,
- Straits,
- bering strait,
- cook strait,
- desperate straits,
- dire straits,
- korea strait,
- korean strait,
- menai strait,
- strait and narrow,
- strait of calais,
- strait of dover,
- strait of georgia,
- strait of gibraltar,
- strait of hormuz,
- strait of magellan,
- strait of messina,
- strait of ormuz,
- torres strait,
- Strait-handed,
- Strait-handedness,
- Strait-jacket,
- Strait-laced,
- Strait-waistcoat,
- kammon strait bridge