Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To pass over a strait or narrow sea.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb obsolete To pass over a strait or narrow sea.
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- verb dated, early modern English To cross a channel or narrow sea.
Etymologies
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From Middle English, ultimately from Latin transfreto ("cross a strait or sea"), from trans ("across") + fretum or fretus ("strait, channel").
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