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ˈcantref, -ev
Also dial. canthrif.
[a. Welsh cant hundred + tref town, place.]
= cantred.
1606Warner Alb. Eng. xv. xciii. (1612) 375 Wales, that had neere as many Kings as Cantrefes in times past. 1656Blount Glossogr., Cantred or rather Cantref signifies an hundred villages. 1847Nat. Cycl. I. 738 The county of Anglesey is divided into three cantrefs. 1875Robinson Whitby Gloss. (E.D.S.). ‘I'll whallop the whooal canthrif’, i.e. fight the entire lot. 1887Edin. Rev. Jan. 75, 12,800 erwr [= acres] formed the territorial division called a cymwd and about double that number a cantrev. |