Frith

Word FRITH
Character 5
Hyphenation frith
Pronunciations /fɹɪθ/

Definitions and meanings of "Frith"

What do we mean by frith?

A firth. noun

A narrow arm of the sea; an estuary; the opening of a river into the sea: used specifically in Scotland only, where firth is the commoner form: as, the Firth of Forth; the Frith of Clyde. noun

A kind of weir for catching fish; a kind of net. noun

Peace; security; freedom from molestation. noun

A treaty or agreement of peace made between two contending kingdoms or districts. noun

A piece of land inclosed for the preservation of game; a park or forest for game; hence, a forest or woody place in general; a hedge; a coppice. noun

A small field taken out of a common. noun

Ground overgrown with bushes or underwood; a field which has been taken from woods. noun

To protect; guard.

To inclose; fence in, as a forest or park.

A narrow arm of the sea; an estuary; the opening of a river into the sea. Also called firth. noun

A kind of weir for catching fish. noun

A forest; a woody place. noun

A small field taken out of a common, by inclosing it; an inclosure. noun

Alternative form of firth. noun

A wood, woodland, forest; undergrowth, brushwood noun

Peace; security. noun

Sanctuary, asylum. noun

To protect; guard. verb

To inclose; fence in, as a forest or park. verb

Peace; security.

Sanctuary, asylum.

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The word "frith" in example sentences

The frith is the Dumfries-shire Solway, the castle a ❋ Samuel Rutherford Crockett (N/A)

Should the writer use 'frith' instead of 'peace', or 'burh' instead of 'fort', or 'cyrtel' instead of 'dress', or 'hegge' instead of 'fence'? ❋ Carla (2006)

The punishment of one who was guilty of breaking his "frith" was practically banishment or death. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

A complete code of ordinances, regulating this "frith" or peace gild, as it was called, drawn up by the bishops and reeves of the burgh, and confirmed by the members on oath, is still preserved to us. ( ❋ Unknown (N/A)

These differed from their predecessors, the religious or frith guilds, by being established primarily for the purpose of obtaining and maintaining the privilege of carrying on trade. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Subsequent enactments down to the time of Athelstan 925-940 show that they soon developed into frith guilds or peace guilds, associations with a corporate responsibility for the good conduct of their members and their mutual liability. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Talbot then gave the young man a letter to the commander of one of the English vessels of war cruising in the frith, requesting him to put the bearer ashore at Berwick, with a pass to proceed to — — shire. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Brave sons of the mountain, the frith, and the lake! ❋ Unknown (2004)

The Clyde we left a little on our left-hand at Dunbritton, where it widens into an aestuary or frith, being augmented by the influx of the Leven. ❋ Unknown (2004)

And so the cause efficient remaining, it would have continually followed along our coasts through the narrow seas, which it doeth not, but is digested about the north of Labrador by some through passage there through this frith. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Mediterranean Sea (as affirmeth Contorenus), where, as the current which cometh from Tanais and the Euxine, running along all the coasts of Greece, Italy, France, and Spain, and not finding sufficient way out through Gibraltar by means of the straitness of the frith, it runneth back again along the coasts of Barbary by ❋ Unknown (2003)

But in Magellan strait we are violently driven back westward, ergo through the north-western strait or Anian frith shall we not be able to return eastward: it followeth not. ❋ Unknown (2003)

It is lamentable to think, because “a narrow frith” divides two people, or because one lives in the mountains and the other in the plains, that therefore they should be enemies for ever! ❋ Unknown (2003)

Methinks I am like a man, who having struck on many shoals, and having narrowly escap'd ship-wreck in passing a small frith, has yet the temerity to put out to sea in the same leaky weather-beaten vessel, and even carries his ambition so far as to think of compassing the globe under these disadvantageous circumstances. ❋ Unknown (2001)

General Anstruther, having made himself unpopular, was obliged, on his return to Scotland, to pass in disguise to his own estate; and crossing a frith, he said to the waterman, "This is a pretty boat, I fancy you sometimes smuggle with it." ❋ Various (N/A)

The most plausible theory seems to be that they are one of the lost tribes of Israel; that they crossed a narrow frith from the confines of ❋ Edmund B. Tuttle (N/A)

From a wooded promontory that stretched half-way across the frith, there ascended a thin column of smoke. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)

Distant countries have been made neighbors; the Atlantic Ocean has become a narrow frith, and the Old World and the New shake hands across it; the East and the ❋ Various (N/A)

The quarry in which I wrought lay on the southern side of a noble inland bay, or frith rather, with a little clear stream on the one side, and a thick fir wood on the other. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)

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. ❋ Alban Butler (N/A)

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