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frith

  [frith]
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–noun
firth.

firth

  [furth]
–noun Chiefly Scot.
a long, narrow indentation of the seacoast.
Also, frith.

Origin:
1400–50; late ME (Scots) < ON firth-, s. of fjǫrthr fjord
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frith   (frĭth)   
n.   Scots
A firth.

[Alteration of firth.]
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Frith

Frith\, n. [OE. firth, Icel. fj["o]r?r; akin to Sw. fj["a]rd, Dan. fiord, E. ford. [root]78. See Ford, n., and cf. Firth, Fiord, Fret a frith, Port a harbor.]

1. (Geog.) A narrow arm of the sea; an estuary; the opening of a river into the sea; as, the Frith of Forth.

2. A kind of weir for catching fish. [Eng.] --Carew.

Frith

Frith\, n. [OE. frith peace, protection, land inclosed for hunting, park, forest, AS. fri? peace; akin to freno? peace, protection, asylum, G. friede peace, Icel. fri?r, and from the root of E. free, friend. See Free, a., and cf. Affray, Defray.]

1. A forest; a woody place. [Obs.] --Drayton.

2. A small field taken out of a common, by inclosing it; an inclosure. [Obs.] --Sir J. Wynne.
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