Both Uses of
strait
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- The ship drew on and had safely passed the strait, which some volcanic shock has made between the Calasareigne and Jaros islands; had doubled Pomegue, and approached the harbor under topsails, jib, and spanker, but so slowly and sedately that the idlers, with that instinct which is the forerunner of evil, asked one another what misfortune could have happened on board.
Chpt 1-2 *strait = narrow water passage
- The first was just disappearing in the straits of Bonifacio; the other, following an opposite direction, was about to round the Island of Corsica.†
Chpt 23-24
Definition:
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(strait as in: Strait of Hormuz) a narrow channel of the sea joining two larger bodies of water