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Definition of Firth of Forth
1. Noun. A large firth on the east coast of Scotland and the estuary of the Forth River; location of Edinburgh.
Definition of Firth of Forth
1. Proper noun. The estuary of the River Forth. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Firth Of Forth
Literary usage of Firth of Forth
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. International Catalogue of Scientific Literature by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1906)
"Pearcey, FG Notes on the marine deposits of the Firth of Forth, and their relation
to its animal life. Glasgow, Trans. Nat. Hist. Soc., 6, 1903, (217- 251, ..."
2. Report of the Annual Meeting (1872)
"... taken in the Firth of Forth. By Professor J. Dras. 0)i the Rarer Raptorial
Birds of Scotland. By Professor J. DUNS. ..."
3. The Ancient Volcanoes of Great Britain by Sir Archibald Geikie (1897)
"BASIN OF THE Firth of Forth Reference has already been made to the remarkable
peculiarity in the development of the lower part of the Carboniferous system ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1893)
"Under the first-mentioned Act the Firth of Forth and St Andrews Bay were closed
... The Firth of Forth ami St Andrews Bay have been closed for more than six ..."
5. Catalogue of the Fishes in the British Museum by Albert Carl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther (1866)
"51. X. Twenty-one inches and a half: skin, female. Firth of Forth. ... Firth of
Forth. One of the types of Parnell's " Curved-spotted Bull-trout," p. ..."
6. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1892)
"Steamers in collision on the Firth of Forth, 13 drowned. Locomotive falls from
elevated railroad, New York city, engineer hurt, signals misunderstood. 13. ..."
7. The Journal of Anatomy and Physiology by Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1882)
"IN September 1872 a whale of some magnitude was seen floundering in shallow water
at Snab, Kinneil, about a mile from Bo'ness, on the Firth of Forth. ..."
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