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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Feith, Feith net, n. [Also in later use as feeth.] ‘A net, fixed and stretching into the bed of a river’ (J). — 1495 Reg. Privy S. I. 9/1.
All the fychinis of Spey, … that is to say, the ellevin feithis and the twa part of the cobill 1501 Ib. 100/1.
Oure soverane lordis fischingis of Spey … extending to xii feith nettis