Narrow
Straits
Straits noun - A difficult juncture.
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However, referring to salt-water straits as "rivers" merely because they're wet and narrow would surely have been a boo-boo even in the Second Age of Atlantis!
Source: Artistic License Geography - What it does say, in the KJV, is that "strait is the gate, and narrow is the way", with "strait" meaning narrow or constricted note (as in Straits of Gibraltar, straitjacket, etc.).
Source: God Never Said That -
In The Great Pacific War, the portion of the American fleet based in the Atlantic is forced into this by the wrecking of the Panama Canal, having to traverse the narrow passageways of the Straits of Magellan instead.
Source: Ridiculously Difficult Route
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