Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A long, narrow inlet of the sea.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A wood or park: same as
frith , 2. - noun See
frith .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Geog.) An arm of the sea; a frith.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
arm of the sea; afrith .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun English linguist who contributed to linguistic semantics and to prosodic phonology and who was noted for his insistence on studying both sound and meaning in context (1890-1960)
- noun a long narrow estuary (especially in Scotland)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The problem with this back-and-firth is that it doesn’t really address the issues at hand.
Global Voices in English » East Timor: Ricegate scandal 2009
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We all embarked in the barge and crossed over the firth, which is in this place nearly a mile broad, to Castro Pol, the first town in the Asturias.
The Bible in Spain; or, the journeys, adventures, and imprisonments of an Englishman, in an attempt to circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula George Henry Borrow 1842
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We all embarked in the barge and crossed over the firth, which is in this place nearly a mile broad, to Castro Pol, the first town in the Asturias.
The Bible in Spain 1712
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A firth is a Lowland word for coastal waters such as a bay, an inlet or a strait.
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And from every point on the coast you may get, if the weather is fine which cannot be guaranteed rapturous views across the firth to the Isle of May, with its Stevenson lighthouse.
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So it was plan B and to the sea where eventually we ended up in the hide on the south side of this extensive firth on the east coast.
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And what is he really doing at firth? full “report” coming soon.
#33 Killer Connections FRANKLIN W. DIXON 2010
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And what is he really doing at firth? full “report” coming soon.
#33 Killer Connections FRANKLIN W. DIXON 2010
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Closest to a firth: Inverness Caledonian Thistle's Caledonian Stadium takes this one by a mile.
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And what is he really doing at firth? full “report” coming soon.
#33 Killer Connections FRANKLIN W. DIXON 2010
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