I beg cold comfort, and you are so strait, And so ingrateful, you
deny me that.
Shak.
Strait (?), adv. Strictly; rigorously. [Obs.] Shak.
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.