frith

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The window overlooked the North Loch and the swelling bank beyond, and the distant frith and the hills of Fife.

From Ringan Gilhaize or The Covenanters by Galt, John

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

As for the frith, it had shrunk to a dribble of water.

From Gudrid the Fair A Tale of the Discovery of America by Hewlett, Maurice Henry

On their way back to the ship they struck the frith nearer to the mouth than where the anchorage was.

From Gudrid the Fair A Tale of the Discovery of America by Hewlett, Maurice Henry

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 Butler, Alban