Meaning of frith | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Peace; security.
   archaic, poetic, rare, uncountable
2. A forest or wood; woodland generally.
3. A surname.
4. Sanctuary, asylum.
   obsolete, uncountable
5. Land with mostly undergrowth and few trees; also, land in between forests or woods; pastureland which is not in use.
   British, dialectal
6. A town in Montserrat (in the safe zone).
7. Brushwood or undergrowth, sometimes in the form of a hedge.
8. A hedge, especially one made from brushwood which has been wattled; also, a movable frame made from wattled branches, a hurdle.
9. A kind of weir made from wattled branches for catching fish.
   obsolete

Examples

“Thus the king declares that he wants to see his peace or 'frith' extended to his people and that moots are urged to frith all that the king wills to be frithed”

“As over Holt and Heath, as thorough Frith and Fell; [...]”

“He [Agricola] had observed, that the island [Britannia; now Great Britain] is almost divided into two unequal parts by the opposite gulfs, or, as they are now called, the Friths of Scotland.”

“/ The southern hills / That to the setting Sun, their graceful heads / Rearing, o'erlook the frith, where Vecta breaks / With her white rocks, the strong impetuous tide, / When western winds the vast Atlantic urge / To thunder on the coast”

“A Low-Germanic tongue, usually called by those who spoke it Englisc, or English, but which by us is usually styled Anglo-Saxon, was the speech of all the Teutonic inhabitants of Great Britain from the Channel to the Frith of Forth.”

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