isthmus (n.)
- abbreviation
- astringency
- bottleneck
- canal
- cervix
- channel
- circumscription
- coarctation
- compaction
- compression
- concentration
- condensation
- consolidation
- constriction
- contraction
- contracture
- curtailment
- decrease
- defile
- diminuendo
- hourglass
- knitting
- narrow
- narrowing
- narrows
- neck
- pass
- reduction
- shortening
- solidification
- strait
- strangulation
- striction
- stricture
- systole
- throat
This narrow isthmus 'twixt two boundless seas,
The past, the future,—two eternities!
