Meaning of Tivy | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A river that forms the boundary between Ceredigion and Carmarthenshire; the Teifi.
2. A surname.

Examples

“With Cardigan the Muſe proceeds, And tells what rare things Tivy breeds: Next, proud Plynillimon ſhe plys; Where Severn, Wy and Rydoll riſe.”

“1688, Edmund Bohun, Caermarthenſhire, entry in A Geographical Dictionary, unnumbered page, It takes its name from the principal City, which ſtands upon the River Tivy, about five Miles from the Sea.”

“From thence we first gained a view of the vale through which the Tivy runs, intersecting a broad plain with its manifold windings, and crossed in the centre by a narrow bridge of one arch, just below the town of Llanbeder.”

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