transfreting

Verb

transfrete (third-person singular simple present transfretes, present participle transfreting, simple past and past participle transfreted)

1. (dated, early modern English) To cross a channel or narrow sea.
   • The marquesse then of Monferrato, a citye in Italy, beynge a gentleman of great prowesse and valiance, was appointed to transfrete the seas in a generall passage made by the Christians, wyth an huge armie and great furniture.c. 1567, William Painter, "The Marchionisse of Monferrato", in The Palace of Pleasure, volume 2, page 181, Joseph Haselwood, editor, 1813 edition