Meaning of Strait | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A narrow channel of water connecting two larger bodies of water.
2. A surname.
3. A narrow pass, passage or street.
4. A neck of land; an isthmus.
5. A difficult position.
   in-plural, often

Equivalents

Examples

“the Strait of Gibraltar”

“[…] we steered directly through a large Out-let, which they call a Streight, tho’ it be fifteen Miles broad […]”

“He brought him through a darksom narrow strayt, To a broad gate all built of beaten gold:”

“For honour travels in a strait so narrow, Where one but goes abreast:”

“The bold Sir Bedivere uplifted him, Sir Bedivere, the last of all his knights, And bore him to a chapel nigh the field, A broken chancel with a broken cross, That stood on a dark strait of barren land.”

“to be in dire straits”

“1684, Robert South, “A Sermon Preached at Westminster-Abbey” in Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, London: Thomas Bennett, 1692, p. 420, […] let no man, who owns the Belief of a Providence, grow desperate or forlorn, under any Calamity or Strait whatsoever […]”

“Plutarch is of opinion that this sleep of Ulysses was feigned; and that he made use of the pretence of natural infirmity to conceal the streights he was in at that time in his thoughts […]”

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