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