fraise

¹ American  

[freyz] / freɪz /

noun

1. Fortification. a defense consisting of pointed stakes projecting from the ramparts in a horizontal or an inclined position.

2. a ruff worn around the neck in the 16th century.

3. a woman's embroidered scarf worn with ends crossed on the chest and pinned with a brooch or the like, popular in the early 19th century.

4. Horology. a cutting tool for correcting inaccuracies in the teeth of a timepiece wheel.

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fraise ² American  

[frez] / frɛz /

noun

French.

plural

fraises

1. strawberry.

2. crème de fraise.

3. a brandy distilled from strawberries.

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fraise British  

/ freɪz /

noun

1. a neck ruff worn during the 16th century

2. a sloping or horizontal rampart of pointed stakes

3. 1. a tool for enlarging a drill hole

   2. a tool for cutting teeth on watch wheels

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Etymology

Origin of fraise

1765–75; < French, derivative of fraiser “to frizzle, curl” < Provençal frezar ≪ Germanic; compare Old English frīs “curled”

Example Sentences

"Ferry Hills" Fort—Earth and concrete—Very deep ditches, flanked by counterscarp galleries and a stone caponier—Casemated—Probable armament—Two 9.2-inch guns, six 7.5-inch guns—Wrought-iron fraise below counterscarp.

From Spies of the Kaiser Plotting the Downfall of England by Le Queux, William

We have not spoken, in the above catalogue, either of the liver, or of the fraise, or of the ears, which also share the honour of appearing at our tables.

From The Book of Household Management by Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary)

The fraise, cooked in water, and eaten with vinegar, is a wholesome and agreeable dish, and contains a mucilage well adapted for delicate persons.

From The Book of Household Management by Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary)

Here Confederate Gilmer's engineering skill has prepared ditch and fraise, abattis and chevaux-de-frise, with yawning graves for the soon-forgotten brave.

From The Little Lady of Lagunitas A Franco-Californian Romance by Savage, Richard

I caused a sloping picket fence, technically called a fraise, to be projected over the parapet on my side of the work, as an obstacle against an escalading party.

From Reminiscences of Forts Sumter and Moultrie in 1860-'61 by Doubleday, Abner

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