Lexicographical Neighbors of Hithes
Literary usage of Hithes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. London: Being an Accurate History and Description of the British Metropolis by David Hughson (1805)
"... but only with cranes for craning up of goods at convenient hithes and landings,
made at fitting places for that purpose, which I conceive to be best ..."
2. Calendar of the patent rolls preserved in the Public record office by Great Britain Public Record Office (1907)
"... to survey the hithes of the water of Thames and the dykes by that water at
... to find by inquisition by whose default the hithes and dykes have fallen ..."
3. The Story of Cambridge by Charles William Stubbs (1905)
"Between the two bridges were the principal wharfs or river hithes—corn ...
It is with certain rights in regard to these hithes that the earliest Royal ..."
4. Proceedings by Cambridge Antiquarian Society (Cambridge, England) (1899)
"Along the line of two of the main streets it is still easy to trace the lots in
which the houses have been laid out ; and the remains of the old hithes and ..."
5. The Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1885)
"It was established that three men had hired a boat from one of the “hithes” near
London Bridge, soon after four o'clock, when it was getting dark and close ..."
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