Definition of "straiter" [straiter]

• Comparative form of strait: more strait (adjective)

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• "I fancy if she ever lets you into her inner case, you would only find just what has been tormenting and dragging your own life out of you - the same sort of things - only 'her great dragon underground, in straiter fetters bound,' had not been let loose for a long time."
• "Wherefore the lexicographer adviseth a striving toward the straiter resemblance of the Average Man than he hath to himself."
• "And in such condition my course continued down the channel which now grew wide and then straiter till, sore aweary by reason of the darkness which could be felt, I fell asleep, as I lay prone on the raft, and"