frith
Britishnoun
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The night passed without attack, and by daylight they rowed out of the frith, and out to sea.
From Gudrid the Fair A Tale of the Discovery of America by Maurice Henry Hewlett
This long frith is 120 miles in length including its windings, and communicates at its eastern end with the Baltic.
From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Sir Charles Lyell
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
He was placed very young under the discipline of St. Servanus, bishop and abbot of Culros, a monastery, situated upon the frith which divides Lothian from Fife.
From The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March by Alban Butler
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
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