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Narrow channel — not winding, by the sound of it (6)

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strait

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(Other definitions for strait that I've seen before include "Narrow kind of traits" , "Narrow passage joining two large areas of water" , "Narrow stretch of water as at Gibraltar" , "Narrow sorts of traits" , "Narrow strip of water between two larger ones" .)

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