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单词 transfrete
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transfretev.

Forms: Also 1500s -fret, 1600s -freat; 1500s transfreit, 1500s–1600s transfreight.
Etymology: < Latin transfretāre, < trans- prefix + fretum a strait, channel; compare Old French transfreter (a1200 in Godefroy).
Obsolete.
1. intransitive. To pass over a strait or narrow sea.
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society > travel > travel by water > [verb (intransitive)] > across
passc1300
transfrete1548
transfleeta1600
transwaft1624
to make the riffle1887
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry IV f. xxiiii Declaryng also that..he wold transfret and passe the sea himselfe.
?c1550 tr. P. Vergil Eng. Hist. (1846) I. 85 The Emperoure Severus..desierus to procure the destruction of Albinus, transfreted into Fraunce.
1567 T. Drant tr. Horace Pistles in tr. Horace Arte of Poetrie sig. Djv Treasure of greater gaine Then all the chaffer that transfretes From Portugal, or Spayne.
1606 W. Warner Continuance Albions Eng. xiv. xci. 370 Hence for Ireland at the least, I must transfreat.
1653 E. Waterhouse Humble Apol. Learning 52 The Saxon Merchants.. Arm and Transfreight, and about the year six hundred eighty nine obtain the Rule over us.
2. transitive.
a. To convey across a strait or sea.
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society > travel > travel by water > transportation by water > transport by water [verb (transitive)] > ferry
ferryOE
transfrete1594
transwaft1635
1594 1st Pt. Raigne Selimus sig. H2 T'await th' arriuall of some ship That might transfreit vs safely vnto Rhodes.
b. To cross (a strait or sea).
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society > travel > travel by water > [verb (transitive)] > sail across
oversail?a1400
to put over1569
transfrete1595
transfretate1653
ply1700
passage1987
1595 W. S. Lamentable Trag. Locrine i. i. 108 We..transfretting the Illirian sea, Arriued on the coasts of Aquitane.
1611 R. Brathwait Sonn. iv. viii, in Golden Fleece ii. sig. Gv With ioyfull mirth..To haue transfreted such a Sea of woes.
1653 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais 1st Bk. Wks. xxxiii. 151 Have we not..travelled and toyled enough, in having transfreted and past over the Hircanian sea?
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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