fraise — English Dictionary

Verb

1. To put in danger, in terror, or at risk.

   Usage

   • Archaic
   • Transitive

   Related words

   fraist

Noun

1. A type of palisade placed for defence around a berm; a defence consisting of pointed stakes driven into the ramparts in a horizontal or inclined position.

2. A ruff worn (especially by women) in the 16th century.

   Usage

   • Historical

3. An embroidered scarf with its ends crossed over the chest and pinned, worn (especially by women) in the 19th century.

   Usage

   • Historical

   Examples

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   Among the most conspicuous is the pelerine collar, made of black velvet, and forming a fraise round the throat. The fraise is lined with such light-colored silks as pink and blue, and the pelerine is piped with silk of the same color.

4. A fluted reamer for enlarging holes in stone; a small milling cutter.

5. A tool for cutting the teeth of a timepiece's wheel to correct inaccuracies.

Verb

1. To protect, as a line of troops, against an onset of cavalry, by opposing bayonets raised obliquely forward.

   Examples

   to fraise a battaion is to line or cover it every way with bayonets

Noun

1. A stylized strawberry with leaves.

   Examples

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   The surname of Bernard is derived from the ancestor carrying, for his device, Argent, a bear rampant sable muzzled or; the name of Frazer from the bearing of fraises or strawberry leaves; and many other instances might be adduced ...

   Az. a fraise arg. between three garbs or, all within a bordure engrailed of the second. George Cumming (1790)

   The Emperor also gave the family three fraises, or stalked strawberries, for their coat of arms.

Noun

1. Commotion.

   Usage

   • UK usage
   • Dated
   • dialectal

Noun

1. a ruff for the neck worn in the 16th century

   Broader terms

   chokerruffruffleneck ruff

2. sloping or horizontal rampart of pointed stakes

   Broader terms

   rampartbulwarkwall