frith

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It was therefore deemed necessary to have two detachments; one to guard the passage of the frith, the other to go by the head of it.

From Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III. by Thomson, Mrs.

They jumped off the ship's side on to the sand, which was firm and white, and ran to shore, and up the frith, where the going was easy for a mile or two.

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

She went back to Orme's house, and he went his way along the shore of the frith.

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

Lands intersected by a narrow frith    Abhor each other.

From Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi by Devol, George H.

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