a variant of straight.-narrow; not broad.-tight; close; closely fitting.-close; intimate; near; familiar.-strict; scrupulous; rigorous.-difficult; distressful; straited.-parsimonious; niggargly; mean.-strictly; rigorously.-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.-to put to difficulties.