, or Straight, or Streight, in Hydrography, is a narrow channel or arm of the sea, shut up between lands on either side, and usually affording a passage out of one great sea into another. As the Straits of Magellan, of Le Maire, of Gibraltar, &c.
Strait is also sometimes used, in Geography, for an isthmus, or neck of land between two seas, preventing their communication.
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Entry taken from A Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary, by Charles Hutton, 1796.
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