Vocabulary : Strainably to Strait-handed

Strainably : Violently.
Strained : of Strain ;; Subjected to great or excessive tension; wrenched; weakened; as, strained relations between old friends. ;; Done or produced with straining or excessive effort; as, his wit was strained.
Strainer : One who strains. ;; That through which any liquid is passed for purification or to separate it from solid matter; anything, as a screen or a cloth, used to strain a liquid; a device of the character of a sieve or of a filter; specifically, an openwork or perforated screen, as for the end of the suction pipe of a pump, to prevent large solid bodies from entering with a liquid.
Straining : of Strain ;; a. & n. from Strain.
Straint : Overexertion; excessive tension; strain.

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.
Straiten : To make strait; to make narrow; hence, to contract; to confine. ;; To make tense, or tight; to tighten. ;; To restrict; to distress or embarrass in respect of means or conditions of life; -- used chiefly in the past participle; -- as, a man straitened in his circumstances.
Straitened : of Straiten
Straitening : of Straiten
Strait-handed : Parsimonious; sparing; niggardly.

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