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† transˈfrete, v. Obs.
Also 6 -fret, 7 -freat; erron. 6 -freit, 6–7 -freight.
[ad. L. transfretāre, f. trans- + fretum a strait, channel; cf. OF. transfreter (a 1200 in Godef.).]
1. intr. To pass over a strait or narrow sea.
c1540tr. Pol. Verg. Eng. Hist. (Camden) I. 85 The Emperoure Severus..desierus to procure the destruction of Albinus, transfreted into Fraunce. a1548Hall Chron., Hen. IV 24 Declaryng also that..he wold transfret and passe the sea himselfe. 1567Drant Horace, Ep. vi. D j, Treasure of greater gaine Then all the chaffer that transfretes from Portugal or Spaine. 1606Warner Alb. Eng. xiv. xci, Hence for Ireland at the least I must transfreat. 1653Waterhouse Apol. Learn. 52 The Saxon Merchants.. Arm and Transfreight, and about the year six hundred eighty nine obtain the Rule over us.
2. trans.
a. To convey across a strait or sea.
b. To cross (a strait or sea).
1594? Greene Selimus Wks. (Grosart) XIV. 266 T'await th' arriuall of some ship That might transfreit vs safely vnto Rhodes. 1595Locrine i. i. 108 We..transfretting the Illirian sea, Arriued on the coasts of Aquitane. 1611R. Brathwait Gold. Fleece, Sonn. iv. G j b, With joyfull mirth..To haue transfreted such a Sea of woes. 1653Urquhart Rabelais i. xxxiii. 151 Have we not..travelled and toyled enough, in having transfreted and past over the Hircanian sea? |