frithing

Verb

frith (third-person singular simple present friths, present participle frithing, simple past and past participle frithed)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To protect; guard.
   • This monument and the Cairns themselves have been purchast by the State, and are now therefore "frithed", protected and national property.1868, George Stephens, The Old-Northern Runic Monuments of Scandanavia and England, page 732
2. (obsolete, transitive) To enclose; fence in, as a forest or park.
   • On the other of these improvements, the base of the mound was six feet, its height five feet, and breadth at the top nearly the same; this, with the side-drains or ditches on each side, made the whole scite of the fence about 12 feet; cost of raising the mound and frithing, 4s . per perch.1808, Charles Vancouver, General View of the Agriculture of the County of Devon, page 134

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