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Definition of Straits

1. Noun. A bad or difficult situation or state of affairs.

Definition of Straits

1. Noun. (plural of strait) ¹

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Definition of Straits

1. strait [n] - See also: strait

Lexicographical Neighbors of Straits

Literary usage of Straits

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. International Law: A Treatise by Lassa Oppenheim (1905)
"It was apparently decided by * As, for instance, the straits of the Queen's ... These straits were Cunningham (Bell's Crown Cases, neutralised in 1881 — see ..."

2. Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana, Jr., Richard Henry Dana, Jr. Dana (2001)
"Soon, however, it leaked out, and we found that we were running for the straits of Magellan. The news soon spread through the ship, and all tongues were at ..."

3. International Law: A Treatise by Lassa Oppenheim (1920)
"However this may be, it would seem that claims of States over wider straits than those which can be commanded by guns from coast batteries can no ..."

4. International Law: A Treatise by Lassa Oppenheim (1912)
"Navigation, Fishery, and Jurisdiction in straits. (It would seem that claims of States over wider straits than those which can be commanded by guns ..."

5. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1847)
"THE British possessions in the straits of Malacca are composed of three settlements, viz.: Poolo Penang, or Prince of Wales Island, embracing the province ..."

6. The Law of Nations; Or, Principles of the Law of Nature: Applied to the by Emer de Vattel, Joseph Chitty (1858)
"292. they serve for a communication between two seas, the naviga-straits m tion ... Thus, the king of Denmark requires a custom at the straits of the Sound. ..."

7. The Invasion of the Crimea: Its Origin and an Account of Its Progress Down by Alexander William Kinglake (1887)
"I. To open the fortified straits leading into the ' closed' CHAP. ... This peninsula of Kertch on the one side, on the The straits 1 of Kertch. other, ..."

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