All 4 Uses of

strait

in

The Odyssey - translated by: Fitzgerald

Just give me a fast ship and twenty men; I'll intercept him, board him in the strait between the crags of Same and this island.
Chpt 4

strait = narrow water passage

One narrow strait may take you through his blows: denial of yourself, restraint of shipmates.
Chpt 11

And all this time, in travail, sobbing, gaining on the current, we rowed into the strait-Skylla to port and on our starboard beam Kharybdis, dire gorge of the salt sea tide.
Chpt 12

Once through the strait, nine days I drifted in the open sea before I made shore, buoyed up by the gods, upon Ogygia Isle.
Chpt 12 *

Definitions:

(1) (strait as in: Strait of Hormuz)
a narrow channel of the sea joining two larger bodies of water
(2) (strait as in: put her in a tough strait)
a bad or difficult situation
(3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
Less commonly, strait can mean narrow or cramped -- as used in the compound word straitjacket. Similarly, it can mean rigid as in strait-laced.

These words are sometimes spelled straight*, but strait is a different word than straight -- which has many meanings.