Citations:frith

to cut underwood

 * 1866, Richard Doddridge Blackmore, Cradock Nowell:
 * At high noon of a bright cold day in the early part of March, a labourer who had been “frithing,” that is to say, cutting underwood in one of the forest copses, came out into the green track, which could scarce be called a "lane", to eat his well-earned dinner.