Sekirov Dictionary

strait

/stɹeɪt/

adjective 6
noun 4
verb 2
adverb 1
forms 5

adjective6

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(no longer used) Narrow; restricted as to space or room; close.
- Sweet oil was poured out on thy head And ran down like cool rain between The strait close locks it melted in. — 1866
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(no longer used) Tight; close; tight-fitting.
- Palamon. […] Stay a little, Is not this peece too streight? Arcite. No, no, tis well. — 1613
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(no longer used) Righteous, strict.
- [he] takes on him to reform Some certain edicts and some strait decrees That lie too heavy on the commonwealth, — 1597
(no longer used) Difficult; distressful.
(no longer used) Close; intimate; near; familiar.
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(no longer used) Parsimonious; stingy; mean.
- […] I do not ask you much, I beg cold comfort; and you are so strait And so ingrateful, you deny me that. — 1596

noun4

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A narrow channel of water connecting two larger bodies of water.
- […] we steered directly through a large Out-let, which they call a Streight, tho’ it be fifteen Miles broad […] — 1720
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A narrow pass, passage or street.
- He brought him through a darksom narrow strayt, To a broad gate all built of beaten gold: — 1590
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[in the plural] A difficult position.
- to be in dire straits
A neck of land; an isthmus.

verb2

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(no longer used) To confine; put to difficulties.
- […] If your lass Interpretation should abuse and call this Your lack of love or bounty, you were straited For a reply […] — 1610
(no longer used) To tighten.

adverb1

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(no longer used) Strictly; rigorously.
- Lords, take your places; and, I pray you all, Proceed no straiter ’gainst our uncle Gloucester Than from true evidence of good esteem He be approved in practise culpable. — 1591

forms

straited · straiting · straits · straiter · straitest

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