frith

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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

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

Lands intersected by a narrow frith    Abhor each other.

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

The night passed without attack, and by daylight they rowed out of the frith, and out to sea.

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

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