Meanings (ES + gloss)
estrecho • paso
A narrow channel of water connecting two larger bodies of water.
[…] we steered directly through a large Out-let, which they call a Streight, tho’ it be fifteen Miles broad […]
the Strait of Gibraltar
aprieto
A difficult position.
1684, Robert South, “A Sermon Preached at Westminster-Abbey” in Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, London: Thomas Bennett, 1692, p. 420, […] let no man, who owns the B…
to be in dire straits
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