frith

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It stands upon the brink of a frith, about nine miles above Port Royal, and thence enjoys all the advantages of the chief mart in this trading country.

From The Campaigns of the British Army at Washington and New Orleans 1814-1815 by Gleig, G. R. (George Robert)

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

She kept her gaze for the tide in the frith, feeling it would be indiscreet to say more.

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

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

And th�s geares w�ron of-slegene nigon eorlas, and an cyning; and thy geare namon West-Seaxan frith with thone here.

From New Word-Analysis Or, School Etymology of English Derivative Words by Swinton, William