Crossword clues for straits
straits
- Narrow channels
- Juan de Fuca and Magellan
- Dover and Gibraltar
- Dire ___
- They may be dire
- Some narrow passages
- Relatives of channels
- Pressing situation
- Otranto et al
- Narrow ship passages
- Malacca, Torres, etc
- In dire --
- Gibraltar and Dover
- Dire ____
- Bab el Mandeb, Golden Gate
- "Dire" situations
- "Dire" places
- In dire ___
- Difficulties
- Narrow waterways
- Geographical connectors
- Narrow passageways
- Some shipping routes
- A bad or difficult situation or state of affairs
- A difficult juncture
- Plights
- Dire ___, rock group
- Emergencies
- Zone of the ___: 1920–23
- Gibraltar and Magellan
- ___ Settlements, former British colony
- Narrow passages
- Some are dire
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Strait \Strait\, n.; pl. Straits. [OE. straight, streit, OF. estreit, estroit. See Strait, a.]
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A narrow pass or passage.
He brought him through a darksome narrow strait To a broad gate all built of beaten gold.
--Spenser.Honor travels in a strait so narrow Where one but goes abreast.
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Specifically: (Geog.) 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.
We steered directly through a large outlet which they call a strait, though it be fifteen miles broad.
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A neck of land; an isthmus. [R.]
A dark strait of barren land.
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Fig.: A condition of narrowness or restriction; doubt; distress; difficulty; poverty; perplexity; -- sometimes in the plural; as, reduced to great straits.
For I am in a strait betwixt two.
--Phil. i. 23.Let no man, who owns a Providence, grow desperate under any calamity or strait whatsoever.
--South.Ulysses made use of the pretense of natural infirmity to conceal the straits he was in at that time in his thoughts.
--Broome.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of strait English)
WordNet
Usage examples of "straits".
Gessoriacum, or Boulogne, in the straits of the British Channel, was chosen by the emperor for the station of the Roman fleet.
The vessels which transported the Vandals over the modern Straits of Gibraltar, a channel only twelve miles in breadth, were furnished by the Spaniards, who anxiously wished their departure.
Another party, which seemed a multitude in the eyes of the Romans, penetrated, without opposition, from the Straits of Thermopylae to the Isthmus of Corinth.
I had wondered, idly, aboard the ship from Marsilikos, how far the domain of the Master of the Straits extended.
The birds would be shipped through the Straits of Darkness to the dukes' camp.
We braved the straits early in the season, stealing the march on other ships, or so we hoped.
But you're talking about winter storms, and you're talking about running the Straits of Darkness.
If so much as one of those drink-besotted scoundrels learns you mean to risk the Straits of Darkness this late in the season, you'll have to turn out the garrison to comb the woods for deserters.
Tradition holds there's no valid compact between captain and crew to sail the straits in winter, save by agreement.
In fair weather the straits were a difficult passage, for though they appeared wide at most points, dangerous rocks were hidden just below the water in many critical places.
One moment they were fighting with mad strength to clear the rocks and pass through the fury of the straits, the next they were running before a stiff breeze with the darkness behind.
And if we left now, we'd have to sail about until the weather in the straits breaks.
I'd rather hide here a while, then a quick run west, through the straits, and up the Far Coast with no delay.
He must have taken the Straits of Darkness during the winter, or he never would have reached the city when he did.
If any can clear the straits in winter in this bucket, it is Amos Trask, and that's no idle boast.