See Also: Menai Strait(encyclopedia)
Menai Straits(dictionary)
Plas Menai Beach(tourism)
Saint George's Pier, Menai Bridge Beach(tourism)
strait(dictionary)
strait(1)(dictionary)
strait(2)(dictionary)
strait(dictionary)
Messina, Strait of(encyclopedia)
Mandeb, Strait of(encyclopedia)

by-blow (iou) and Menai Strait (sh)


by-blow (iou)



by-blow noun. L16.
[from BY- + BLOW noun1.]
A blow aimed at a person who is not a main opponent; a side-stroke. L16.
An illegitimate child. L16.

Menai Strait (sh)




Channel of the Irish Sea separating the Isle of Anglesey from the mainland of northern Wales.

It extends 15 mi (24 km) and varies in width from 600 ft (180 m) to 2 mi (3 km). Two famous bridges span the strait: Thomas Telford's suspension road bridge of 1827 and Robert Stephenson's Britannia tubular railway bridge of 1849.