straits n pl OED strait B 3 'the word is usually pl. with sing. sense.'
1 1988 Sunday Express 18 Dec, p. 2 'I'd like to see some (regulation that says) fishermen from the island can't come past the straits,' said Jessie Bird, president of the Combined Councils of Labrador.
2 Attrib ~ dog: variety of sled-dog bred on the lower Labrador Coast.
1899 GRENFELL For short dashes of twenty to thirty miles, the lighter built and more vivacious Straits dog is the speedier, and certainly the less wolfish.
