Crossword clues for firth
firth
- Scottish inlet
- Colin who played King George VI
- 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)
- A long narrow estuary (especially in Scotland)
- ___ of Forth
- Coastal inlet
- Narrow arm of the sea
- Estuary
- Narrow sea inlet
- Narrow inlet
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Frith \Frith\ (fr[i^]th), n. [OE. firth, Icel. fj["o]r[eth]r; akin to Sw. fj["a]rd, Dan. fiord, E. ford. [root]78. See Ford, n., and cf. Firth, Fiord, Fret a frith, Port a harbor.]
(Geog.) A narrow arm of the sea; an estuary; the opening of a river into the sea; as, the Frith of Forth. Also called firth.
A kind of weir for catching fish. [Eng.]
--Carew.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"arm of the sea, estuary of a river," early 15c., Scottish, from Old Norse fjörðr (see fjord).
Wiktionary
n. An arm of the sea; a frith#Etymology 3.
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Wikipedia
Firth is a word in the Scots and English languages used to denote various coastal waters in Scotland and England. In mainland Scotland, it is used to refer to a large sea bay, or even a strait. In the Northern Isles, it more usually refers to a smaller inlet. It is linguistically cognate to fjord (both from Proto-Germanic *ferþuz) which has a more constrained sense in English. Bodies of water named "firths" tend to be more common on the east coast, or in the southwest of the country, although the Firth of Lorn is an exception to this. The Highland coast contains numerous estuaries, straits, and inlets of a similar kind, but not called "firth" (e.g. the Minch and Loch Torridon); instead, these are often called sea lochs.
A firth is generally the result of ice age glaciation and is very often associated with a large river, where erosion caused by the tidal effects of incoming sea water passing upriver has widened the riverbed into an estuary. Demarcation can be rather vague. The Firth of Clyde is sometimes thought to include the estuary as far upriver as Dumbarton, but the Ordnance Survey map shows the change from river to firth occurring off Port Glasgow, while locally the change is held to be at the Tail of the Bank where the river crosses a sandbar off Greenock at the junction to the Gare Loch, or even further west at Gourock point.
However, some firths are exceptions. The Cromarty Firth on the east coast of Scotland, for example, resembles a large loch with only a relatively small outlet to the sea and the Solway Firth and the Moray Firth are more like extremely large bays. The Pentland Firth is a strait rather than a bay or an inlet.
Firth is a Scottish word for a coastal water body. It may also refer to:
Firth is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Charles Firth (comedian), Australian comedian
- Charles Firth (coach), former head coach
- Charles Harding Firth, British historian
- Colin Firth (born 1960), British actor
- David Firth, British animator
- Everett Firth, American timpanist
- Harry Firth (born 1918), Australian racing driver and race team manager
- J. R. Firth, British linguist
- John Firth, British cricketer
- Jonathan Firth, British actor
- Joseph Firth, New Zealand educator
- Josiah Firth, New Zealand farmer
- Malaika Firth, Kenyan and British model
- Mark Firth, British steel magnate
- Nicholas Firth, music business executive
- Peter Firth, British actor
- Shirley Firth (1953–2013), Canadian cross-country skier
- Raymond Firth, New Zealand anthropologist
- Will Firth (born 1965), Australian literary translator
Usage examples of "firth".
The environment, with its surface layer of sphagnum under which lie thick deposits of peat, is so conducive to birdlife that Loch Fleet and the Dornoch Firth account for most of the more than five thousand birds that winter in the county of Sutherland.
Fayth drew a footlike peninsula off the far southwest of the Scottish side of the firth.
The whole edifice sat in huge leafy grounds on the outskirts of the village of Kincardine, to the northern side of the Firth of Forth, almost equidistant between Glasgow and Edinburgh.
William Knox, a short-lived poet of considerable merit, was born at Firth, in the parish of Lilliesleaf, Roxburghshire, on the 17th August 1789.
The surrounding moor had browned with the approach of winter, but the bright afternoon sun of this day gave the place a warm, springlike look, especially as it reflected the brilliant azure hue of the firth.
King William II, called Rufus, marched north into Cumbria and captured Carlisle, and established the northern border of England at the Solway Firth, where it has remained for over 800 years.
Jenkins and Hutchins picked Firth up and carried him to the sidelines, where they laid him down on a grassy spot.
The Almighty knew Scots had been born and bred to battle in the old days when her feudal family, the Maxwells of Dumfriesshire, had ruled the area north of the English border from their great and fabled castle, Caerlaverock, on the Firth of Solway.
After a long, lingering kiss, Anne, clinging to him now, her woman heart and body responding, said, "I will love you, John Fraser, until Solway Firth, wherever it is, is dry and until all the stones of Caerlaverock `melt wi' the sun`--and even beyond that.
Now, in the 709 opposite direction, toward Solway Firth, you'll see traces of the second Caerlaverock foundation, just the general outline.
They sat around its glassy blaze and ate some of their provisions: bannocks and dried fish, cheese, salty dulse, and red carrageen from the firth.
Nothing could save them, but gaining the mouth of the Firth of Tay, and then they could bear up for Dundee.
Watching Galen Firth as he heard that grim report, Rannek almost expected the man to order the warriors to close ranks and launch an attack, but even the stern and stubborn Galen was not that foolhardy.
The map was an instant attraction, especially the west coast, fringed with firths, lochs, ky les and isles.
Dornoch wasn't easy to get to, isolated as it was from Edinburgh by an expanse of moody hills and three great sea firths north of Inverness.