- a variation of firth.
frith
Britishnoun
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Lord Loudon had taken up his quarters at Dornoch, on the frith which divides Rosshire from Sutherland.
From Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III. by Mrs. Thomson
Frith, frith, Firth, fėrth, n. a narrow inlet of the sea, esp. at a river-mouth.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
It was therefore deemed necessary to have two detachments; one to guard the passage of the frith, the other to go by the head of it.
From Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III. by Mrs. Thomson
So they set sail, and made a good passage, and came into the frith on a day of fresh southerly wind and strong sunshine.
From Gudrid the Fair A Tale of the Discovery of America by Maurice Henry Hewlett
"This is Heriolfsness, a good ten hours' sailing from the frith; and I am Heriolf at your service."
From Gudrid the Fair A Tale of the Discovery of America by Maurice Henry Hewlett
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