Frith

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Frith \Frith\, n. [OE. frith peace, protection, land inclosed
     for hunting, park, forest, AS. fri[eth] peace; akin to
     freno[eth] peace, protection, asylum, G. friede peace, Icel.
     fri[eth]r, and from the root of E. free, friend. See {Free},
     a., and cf. {Affray}, {Defray}.]
     1. A forest; a woody place. [Obs.] --Drayton.


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     2. A small field taken out of a common, by inclosing it; an
        inclosure. [Obs.] --Sir J. Wynne.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Frith \Frith\ (fr[i^]th), n. [OE. firth, Icel. fj["o]r[eth]r;
     akin to Sw. fj[aum]rd, Dan. fiord, E. ford. [root]78. See
     {Ford}, n., and cf. {Firth}, {Fiord}, {Fret} a frith, {Port}
     a harbor.]
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     1. (Geog.) A narrow arm of the sea; an estuary; the opening
        of a river into the sea; as, the Frith of Forth. Also
        called {firth}.
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     2. A kind of weir for catching fish. [Eng.] --Carew.
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From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  48 Moby Thesaurus words for "frith":
     arm, armlet, bay, bayou, belt, bight, boca, boscage, bosket, brake,
     canebrake, ceja, chamisal, chaparral, coppice, copse, copsewood,
     cove, covert, creek, estuary, euripus, fjord, gulf, gut, harbor,
     inlet, kyle, loch, motte, mouth, narrow, narrow seas, narrows,
     natural harbor, reach, road, roads, roadstead, sound, strait,
     straits, thicket, thickset, underbrush, undergrowth, undershrubs,
     underwood