Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of passing over a strait or narrow sea.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete The act of passing over a strait or narrow sea.
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- noun a
passage over astrait of narrowsea
Etymologies
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From Middle English, from Middle French, ultimately from Latin trans ("across") + fretum or fretus ("strait, channel")
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Jew: — Brun the Jew owes £400 of the fine he made with the King at his transfretation; but they ought to be required from Aaron of Lincoln, and
Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter James Conway Walter
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