frith

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So they set sail, and made a good passage, and came into the frith on a day of fresh southerly wind and strong sunshine.

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

But then they made an island in the sea, and south of that saw the mainland, and a great frith striking up into it.

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

He spent that summer preaching to the people in the Settlement up and down the frith.

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

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

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