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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb obsolete Narrowly; strictly; straitly.
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Examples
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Ai fink tehir eise bees jes soe lellow becuz tehyre reflektyng teh streite lites;
Mefisto Fleas and Lucy Fur - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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As very lately in the yeere 1590 we heard concerning the citizens of Paris, being enuironed with the most streite siege of Henrie the fourth,
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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As very lately in the yeere 1590 we heard concerning the citizens of Paris, being enuironed with the most streite siege of Henrie the fourth,
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Ful streite y-teyd, 21 and shoos ful moiste and newe.
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Leben wider die Suende und Teufel streite, und hernach in Ewigkeit mit
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Gewissen in diesem Leben wider die Suende und Teufel streite, und hernach in Ewigkeit mit Ihm ueber alle Creaturen herrsche.
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And seeing our neer freinds ther are so streite lased, we hope to assure her without troubling them any further; and if ye ship fale too small, it fitteth well yt such as stumble at strawes already, may rest them ther a while, least worse blocks come in ye way ere 7. years be ended.
The Mayflower and Her Log; July 15, 1620-May 6, 1621 — Complete Azel Ames 1876
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Grinsells, a grocer in King streite in Westminster.
Waltoniana Inedited Remains in Verse and Prose of Izaak Walton Izaak Walton 1638
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By gogs soule there they syt as still as stones in the streite
Gammer Gurton's Needle Anonymous 1575
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And so advising togeather we resolved to hire a ship, and have tooke liking of one till Monday, about 60. laste, for a greater we cannot gett, excepte it be tow great; but a fine ship it is. f And seeing our neer freinds ther are so streite lased,
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