The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Narrow \Nar"row\, n.; pl. Narrows.
A narrow passage; esp., a contracted part of a stream, lake,
or sea; a strait connecting two bodies of water; -- usually
in the plural; as, The Narrows of New York harbor.
[1913 Webster]
Near the island lay on one side the jaws of a dangerous
narrow. --Gladstone.
[1913 Webster]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
38 Moby Thesaurus words for "narrows":
arm, armlet, bay, bayou, belt, bight, boca, bottleneck, canal,
channel, cove, creek, defile, estuary, euripus, fjord, frith, gulf,
gut, harbor, inlet, isthmus, kyle, loch, mouth, narrow,
narrow seas, natural harbor, neck, pass, reach, road, roads,
roadstead, sound, strait, straits, throat
U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000):
Narrows, VA -- U.S. town in Virginia
Population (2000): 2111
Housing Units (2000): 971
Land area (2000): 1.279603 sq. miles (3.314156 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.055472 sq. miles (0.143672 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.335075 sq. miles (3.457828 sq. km)
FIPS code: 54904
Located within: Virginia (VA), FIPS 51
Location: 37.331818 N, 80.808477 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 24124
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Narrows, VA
Narrows