[1] : 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.
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            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.
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see also:
straiter straitest strait strict 

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