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straiting

straiting is the present participle and gerund of strait.

Meaning of strait

Verb

strait (third-person singular simple present straits, present participle straiting, simple past and past participle straited)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To confine; put to difficulties.
    • After Bardus, the Celtes […] were in short tyme, and with small labour broughte vnder the subiection of the Giaunt Albion, the sonne of Neptune, who altering the state of things here in this yland, straited the name of Celtica and the Celtes within the boundes of Gallia […]1577, Raphael Holinshed, Holinshed’s Chronicles, volume 1, London: The Historie of Englande, page 3
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To tighten.

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Questions about straiting

What is straiting the present participle and gerund of?
Straiting is the present participle and gerund of strait.

Words near straiting in the dictionary

  1. straitens
  2. straiter
  3. straitest
  4. straithanded
  5. straithandedness
  6. straiting
  7. straitjacket
  8. straitjacketed
  9. straitjacketing
  10. straitjackets
  11. straitjacketted

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