Lacking space or area; of limited size or extent; confined.

Scanty or inadequate in spatial capacity; affording little room; narrow. Of bounds, limits: Narrow. Now rare except in too strait.

Restricted in quantity, size, or amount; scanty. Obsolete.

Limited in extent; not wide or spacious.

Confined or restricted in space, scope, etc.; small, scanty. Also in extended use: mean, niggardly.

Restricted as to space or extent; narrow, drawn in. Cf. strait, adj. 2–4. Now rare or Obsolete.

transferred (?) Of scanty or meagre dimensions.

Contracted, narrowed; insufficiently spacious.

Deficient in extent, compass, or size.

Scant, scanty, meagre. Also: mean, parsimonious.

Of a bird or animal: plucked, moulted. In extended use, of a person or thing: meagre, emaciated, shabby.

Of a room, building, etc.: small in size or accommodation; cramped, confined; (also occasionally) mean, shabby. Cf. poking, adj. 2.

In sense A. 1 (esp. with reference to philately), as postage stamp album, postage stamp collecting, postage stamp size, postage stamp system, etc…

= poky, adj. (in various senses). Now rare.

Of a room: small in size; cramped, confined.

attributive. Designating or relating to a piece of land, etc., of very small dimensions (cf. sense 2).

Very small.