[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

strait \strait\, adv.
   strictly; rigorously. obs. --shak.
   1913 webster

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

strait \strait\, a.
   a variant of straight. obs.
   1913 webster
see also:
straight 

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

strait \strait\, a. compar. straiter; superl. straitest.
   oe. straight, streyt, streit, of. estreit, estroit, f.
   'etroit, from l. strictus drawn together, close, tight, p.
   p. of stringere to draw tight. see 2nd strait, and cf.
   strict.
   1. narrow; not broad.
      1913 webster

            strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which
            leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
                                                  --matt. vii.
                                                  14.
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            too strait and low our cottage doors. --emerson.
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   2. tight; close; closely fitting. --shak.
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   3. close; intimate; near; familiar. obs. "a strait degree
      of favor." --sir p. sidney.
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   4. strict; scrupulous; rigorous.
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            some certain edicts and some strait decrees. --shak.
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            the straitest sect of our religion.   --acts xxvi. 5
                                                  rev. ver..
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   5. difficult; distressful; straited.
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            to make your strait circumstances yet straiter.
                                                  --secker.
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   6. parsimonious; niggargly; mean. obs.
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            i beg cold comfort, and you are so strait,
            and so ingrateful, you deny me that.  --shak.
      1913 webster
see also:
straiter straitest strait strict 

[4] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

strait \strait\, v. t.
   to put to difficulties. obs. --shak.
   1913 webster

[5] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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.
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            honor travels in a strait so narrow
            where one but goes abreast.           --shak.
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   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.
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            we steered directly through a large outlet which
            they call a strait, though it be fifteen miles
            broad.                                --de foe.
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   3. a neck of land; an isthmus. r.
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            a dark strait of barren land.         --tennyson.
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   4. fig.: a condition of narrowness or restriction; doubt;
      distress; difficulty; poverty; perplexity; -- sometimes in
      the plural; as, reduced to great straits.
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            for i am in a strait betwixt two.     --phil. i. 23.
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            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
see also:
straits strait 

[6] : WordNet (r) 2.0

strait
     adj : strict and severe; "strait is the gate"
     n 1: a narrow channel of the sea joining two larger bodies of
          water syn: sound
     2: a bad or difficult situation or state of affairs syn: pass,
         straits
see also:
sound pass straits 

[7] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

159 moby thesaurus words for "strait":
   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

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