feaze

¹ American  

[feez] / fiz /

verb (used with object)

Nautical.

feazed, feazing

1. to untwist (the end of a rope).

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feaze ² American  

[feez, feyz] / fiz, feɪz /

noun

Dialect.

1. feeze.

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feaze ¹ British  

/ fiːz /

verb

1. nautical to make or become unravelled or frayed

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feaze ² British  

/ fiːz /

verb

1. a variant of feeze faze

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Etymology

Origin of feaze

1560–70; akin to Dutch vezelen to fray, Middle Dutch veze frayed edge, Old English fæs fringe

Example Sentences

And no rain or mud or chill will ever feaze me.

From The Desert of Wheat by Grey, Zane

Your mother is anxious to have you come home, but I tell her that a little thing like pulling a professor out of the fire isn't likely to feaze a Garwood!

From The New Boy at Hilltop by Barbour, Ralph Henry

She gets them, any way, and they don't seem to feaze her a particle.

From Peggy Stewart at School by Jackson, Gabrielle E. (Gabrielle Emilie)

But he's a thoroughbred, all right; you can't feaze him for longer than ten seconds, and then only in extreme cases.

From The Range Dwellers by Bower, B. M.

No matter what conditions    Dyspeptic come to feaze, The best of all physicians   Is apple-pie and cheese!

From A Little Book of Western Verse by Field, Eugene