Strait is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for STRAIT in dictionary:

VERB:
• to confine
• Strictly; rigorously.
• To put to difficulties.
• tighten
NOUN:
• a narrow passage of water connecting two seas or two other large areas of water
• used in reference to a situation characterized by a specified degree of trouble or difficulty
• narrow channel connecting two areas of sea
• a narrow channel of the sea joining two larger bodies of water
• a bad or difficult situation or state of affairs
ADJECTIVE:
• confined, rigorous
• (of a place) of limited spatial capacity; narrow or cramped
• close, strict, or rigorous
• A variant of Straight.
• A narrow pass or passage.
• 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.
• A neck of land; an isthmus.
• Fig.: A condition of narrowness or restriction; doubt; distress; difficulty; poverty; perplexity; -- sometimes in the plural; as, reduced to great straits.
• (of spaces, etc) affording little room
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a narrow waterway connecting two larger bodies of water

Words related to STRAIT

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Words that contain STRAIT

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How to use STRAIT in a sentence

• It was in the consulship of Appius Claudius that they first ventured upon that strait which has so ill a name from the strange things related of it, and so impetuous a current.
• This town, which is essentially Gaelic in appearance, is situated on the west side of the strait, between Lakes St.
• It is separated on the south by the small strait of San Juanico from the island of Leyte, with which it was formerly united into one province.
• Sometimes good servants were sold for the price, the master being in a financial strait or dire need of money.
• Bigge Island is separated from the main by a strait named after the Reverend Thomas Hobbes Scott, now Archdeacon of New South Wales, formerly Secretary to the above commission.
• For he who reads must be constrained to own that there is no strait so terrible but the saints can bring safely forth therefrom such men as call upon them.
• I sailed for some time on the former, which may be nearly as broad as the strait between Bencoolen and Rat Island.
• It was a great strait for a conscientious man to be placed in, and a difficulty which might fairly be left to the individual conscience to solve.
• This is the Thermopylae of the Amazon, the great river contracting to a strait not a mile in width, through which it rushes with tremendous velocity.
• Only by intense sufferings can the nations grow, just as the snake once a year must with anguish slough off the once beautiful coat which has now become a strait jacket.
• The pilot narrated after his return to Mexico, he was sent by the viceroy with three vessels to discover the Strait of Anian.
• At daylight on the 5th we entered the strait between the greater and lesser Ki, the shores on both sides of which are lined with small patches of cultivation.
• In such a strait, one must flee from him who saw the fall.
• The Strait, instead of becoming clearer, seemed to be more and more embarrassed with dangers, as the vessels proceeded westward.
• To help you in your strait, I will take that thing, and then we shall be quits.
• The inhabitants of the mainland and Prince of Wales Islands use the spear and throwing-stick, but throughout the remainder of Torres Strait bows and arrows are the chief weapons.
• However, when in the last strait the Christian army sallied out, and inspired with supernatural strength, defeated the Turks and Persians, with a slaughter of 100,000 men.
• Jochelson and Bogoras, two Russian political exiles, who made the scientific investigations for the Jesup North Pacific Expedition on the Asiatic side of Bering Strait.
• The velocity of the stream in the strait reaches six knots at springs.
• Advancing as best he could amongst these raging waves, he discovered a strait some eight miles long, which resembled the entrance of a large harbour.
• Fly in Torres Strait, New Guinea, and other Islands of the Asiatic Archipelago by J.
• These people bear no resemblance to any of the inhabitants of the surrounding islands, except to those of New Guinea, which is only separated from New Holland by a narrow strait.
• But when we reached the rocky shore which looked on the strait, so it was.
• At last the goal seemed at hand and the dangers of the narrow strait had been escaped.
• Next to Detroit the most important fort on the Great Lakes west of Niagara was Michilimackinac, situated on the southern shore of the strait connecting Lakes Huron and Michigan.
• It is reported that the two vessels had ten days of contrary southeast winds which prevented them from reaching the strait sooner, where their danger was.
• He had formed a theory that some strait existed through which a passage might be made from the neighbourhood of St.

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