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English hedge
Answer for the clue "English hedge ", 5 letters:
frith
Word definitions for frith in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Frith \Frith\, n. [OE. frith peace, protection, land inclosed for hunting, park, forest, AS. fri[eth] peace; akin to freno[eth] peace, protection, asylum, G. friede peace, Icel. fri[eth]r, and from the root of E. free, friend. See Free , a., and cf. Affray ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 (context rare or archaic English) peace; security. 2 (context obsolete English) sanctuary, asylum. Etymology 2 vb. 1 (context transitive obsolete English) To protect; guard. 2 (context transitive obsolete English) To inclose; fence in, ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Frith is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Benjamin Frith , British pianist Billy Frith , English football club manager Clifford Brodie Frith , Australian ornithologist Chris Frith , British psychologist David Frith , British cricket writer ...
Usage examples of frith.
Cowal is that portion of Argyllshire bordering the Frith of Clyde, and extending inland to the margin of Lochfine.
Soho his village because he has his breakfast croissant and cappuccino at Patisserie Valerie in Old Compton Street and buys his charcuterie and cheese from Fratelli Camisa in Berwick Street and his coffee beans from Angelucci in Frith Street.
He had observed that the island is almost divided into two unequal parts by the opposite gulfs, or, as they are now called, the Friths of Scotland.
It comprehended all England, Wales, and the Lowlands of Scotland, as far as the Friths of Dumbarton and Edinburgh.
He had so many wives that there was no counting them, and the wives had so many young that even Frith could not count them, and they ate the grass and the dandelions and the lettuces and the clover, and El-ahrairah was the father of them all.
No company had he but his foal by friths and downs, nor nobody but God to talk with by the way.
Even apart from the impiety, which Mother Frith would punish, who of his huscarls would risk his honor to stand beside a man who would do such a thing?
Instead, Frith sent them strange singers, beautiful and sick like oak apples, like robins' pincushions on the wild rose.