frith noun¹. [frɪƟ] Long obsolete exc. Hist.
[Old English friÞu (also strong neut. friÞ) = Old Frisian frethu, Old Saxon friÞu (Dutch vrede), Old High German fridu (German Friede), Old Norse friðr, from Germanic.]
1. Peace; protection; safety, security. OE.

2. A place where game or fish are preserved for hunting. ME-L16.

Comb.:
frithborh [Old English friÞborh: see BORROW noun] = FRANK-PLEDGE; frith-stool (a) a refuge, a sanctuary; (b) a seat (usu. of stone) formerly placed near the altar of some churches, providing sanctuary.

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frith noun². [frɪƟ]
[Old English (ġe)fyrhÞe, fyrhÞ, from Germanic, perh. ult. from base of FIR.]
1. A wood; (sparsely) wooded country. Now chiefly poet. OE.

2. Land grown sparsely with trees or scrub; unused pasture-land; a clearing in a wood. Now dial. LME.

3. A hedge, esp. made of wattled brushwood; a hurdle for fencing. Now dial. LME.

4. Brushwood, undergrowth. Now dial. L16.

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frith noun³. [frɪƟ] ME.
[formed as FIRTH noun²: perh. infl. by Latin fretum arm of the sea.]
= FIRTH noun².

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frith verb. [frɪƟ] obsolete exc. dial. LME.
[from FRITH noun².]
1. verb trans. Fence in or surround with a hedge. LME.

2. verb intrans. Form a hedge of wattled brushwood; cut underwood. E19.

■ frithing verbal noun (a) the action of the verb; (b) material cut for hedging, brushwood: LME.

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