"streight" meaning in English

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Adjective

Forms: more streight [comparative], most streight [superlative]
Head templates: {{en-adj}} streight (comparative more streight, superlative most streight)
  1. Obsolete spelling of straight Tags: alt-of, obsolete Alternative form of: straight
    Sense id: en-streight-en-adj-HWlqDBOy

Noun

Forms: streights [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} streight (plural streights)
  1. Obsolete spelling of strait Tags: alt-of, obsolete Alternative form of: strait
    Sense id: en-streight-en-noun-MWQHDuP8 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Middle English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 42 58 Disambiguation of Middle English entries with incorrect language header: 12 75 8 1 4

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1669, John Nievhoff, translated by John Ogilby, An Embassy from the Eaſt-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperour of China, London: John Macock, →OCLC, pages 3–4",
          "text": "Under our new World may alſo be compriſed thoſe vaſt Southern Coaſts and Streights of Magelan, firſt lighted on by Ferdinandus Magelanus in the year 1520, in his Circumnavigation of the Univerſe ; which forty five years after Sir Francis Drake, and next Sir Thomas Bendiſh, Engliſhmen, made a furhter inſpection into ; and in the Year 1600 Oliver van Noord a Hollander paſt, but of later years a Spaniard, Fedinand de Quier, out-ſhot them all by a more ample Diſcovery then all the former.",
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