frith

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Also, the particular spot in a river or frith, where stationary nets are fixed.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir

The banner of St. Andrew was hoisted at the admiral's mast; and as a light wind caught the sails, the roar of the vast multitude was heard far down the waters of the frith.

From An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America by MacLean, J. P. (John Patterson)

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

They rode through the town-gate, and along the frith to the left or northwards, where the road wound near Tornborg.

From The Childhood of King Erik Menved An Historical Romance by Ingemann, Bernhard Severin

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 Lyell, Charles, Sir