frith

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They used to walk home together, and sometimes did not go the straight road, but went round by the frith and looked at Einar's ship lying out at her moorings, swaying with the tide.

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

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

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

Early next day he weighed his anchor and went down the frith.

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

A corruption of frith, in Scotland applied to arms of the sea, and estuaries of various extent; also given to several channels amongst the Orkneys.

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