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Strait-jacket :: Strait-handed (a.) Parsimonious; sparing; niggardly.

Strait :: Strait (superl.) Strict; scrupulous; rigorous.

Sound :: Sound (n.) A narrow passage of water, or a strait between the mainland and an island; also, a strait connecting two seas, or connecting a sea or lake with the ocean; as, the Sound between the Baltic and the german Ocean; Long Island Sound..

Streighten :: Streight (a., n., & adv.) See 2nd Strait..

Pinch :: Pinch (v. t.) Figuratively: To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve; to distress; as, to be pinched for money..

Euripus :: Euripus (n.) A strait; a narrow tract of water, where the tide, or a current, flows and reflows with violence, as the ancient fright of this name between Eubaea and Baeotia. Hence, a flux and reflux..

Camisole :: Camisole (n.) A kind of straitjacket.

Straitly :: Straitly (adv.) In a strait manner; narrowly; strictly; rigorously.

Strelitz :: Streite (adv.) Narrowly; strictly; straitly.

Fretum :: Fretum (n.) A strait, or arm of the sea..

Coarctate :: Coarctate (a.) To press together; to crowd; to straiten; to confine closely.

Straiten :: Straiten (v. t.) To make strait; to make narrow; hence, to contract; to confine..

Overstraitly :: Overstraitly (adv.) Too straitly or strictly.

Tighten :: Tighten (v. t.) To draw tighter; to straiten; to make more close in any manner.

Straightener :: Straighten (v. t.) A variant of Straiten.

Down :: Down (prep.) A road for shipping in the English Channel or Straits of Dover, near Deal, employed as a naval rendezvous in time of war..

Scrimp :: Scrimp (v. t.) To make too small or short; to limit or straiten; to put on short allowance; to scant; to contract; to shorten; as, to scrimp the pattern of a coat..

Narrow :: Narrow (v. i.) To become less broad; to contract; to become narrower; as, the sea narrows into a strait..

Strait :: Strait (a.) A variant of Straight.

Disjoint :: Disjoint (v. t.) Difficult situation; dilemma; strait.

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