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Straits
Strait Strait, n.; pl. Straits. [OE. straight, streit, OF. estreit, estroit. See Strait, a.] 1. 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. --Shak. 2. 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. --De Foe. 3. A neck of land; an isthmus. [R.] A dark strait of barren land. --Tennyson. 4. 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.

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- Kingussie (/kɪŋˈjuːsi/ king-YOO-see; Scottish Gaelic: Ceann a' Ghiùthsaich pronounced [ˈkʲʰaun̪ˠə ˈʝuːs̪ɪç]) is a small town in the Badenoch and Strathspey...
- Rait (/reɪt/) is a small village in Perth and Kinross, Scotland. It lies 2+1⁄2 miles (4 kilometres) northwest of Errol, in the Gowrie area west of Dundee...
- from the de Raits to the Mackintosh family and then to the Campbell family. In 1442, when the castle p****ed to the Mackintoshes from the de Rait family, a...
- Rait or RAIT may refer to: Rait, a village in Scotland Rait, a village in India Rait Castle in Scotland Ramrao Adik Institute of Technology (RAIT) in...
- Rait is a given name and surname. Notable people with the name include: Rait Ärm (born 2000), Estonian road cyclist Rait Käbin (born 1981), Estonian basketball...
- The Pajama Game. Raitt is of Scottish ancestry; her ancestors constructed Rait Castle near Nairn. As a child, Raitt would often play with her two brothers...
- Nagrota Surian Kangra Valley Kangra Valley Railway Kangra Fort Kangra painting Rait, Himachal Pradesh Shamirpur "Members : Lok Sabha". "Deputy Commissioner Kangra...
- Natalie Raits (Hebrew: נטלי רייץ, born 1 July 2002) is an Israeli group rhythmic gymnast. Raits was born in Israel. She began training in gymnastics at...
- Rait-Riivo Laane (born 24 May 1993) is an Estonian professional basketball player for Rapla KK of the Latvian-Estonian Basketball League. He is a 1.79 m...
- Christianity portal James Rait, MA (1689–1777) was an Anglican clergyman who served in the Scottish Episcopal Church as the Bishop of Brechin from 1742...