Strait

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.

narrow; "strait is the gate"

a bad or difficult situation or state of affairs