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nounrithe (plural rithes)
plural rithes
- alternativeAlternative form of rith (“small stream”).
Besides these branches, there are several rithes or channels, […]
1805, Walley Chamberlain Oulton, The Traveller's Guide; Or, English Itinerary, page 4361 more example
[…] in Tingrithe (Bedfordshire), really thing-rithe or stream, by the site of Manshead hundred meeting-place, and in the discovery in the North Riding of the names Landmoth, i.e. land-moot, and Fingay (i.e. thing-how) Hill close together.
1927, Osbert Guy Stanhope Crawford, Antiquity, page 156
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