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English hedge
Answer for the clue "English hedge ", 5 letters:
frith
Word definitions for frith in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Frith is an obsolete English word. Frith may also refer to: Frith (surname) , a surname Frith (Scots Gaelic: "divinatory incantation"), a Celtic divination practice addressed in the Carmina Gadelica Frith van der Merwe (born 1964), South African athlete ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in 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 ...
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, ...
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.