fraise
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /fɹeɪz/
fraise (fraises, present participle fraising; past and past participle fraised)
Related terms Nounfraise (plural fraises)
- 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.
- (historical) A ruff worn (especially by women) in the 16th century.
- (historical) An embroidered scarf with its ends crossed over the chest and pinned, worn (especially by women) in the 19th century.
- A fluted reamer for enlarging holes in stone; a small milling cutter.
- A tool for cutting the teeth of a timepiece's wheel to correct inaccuracies.
fraise (fraises, present participle fraising; past and past participle fraised)
- (military) To protect, as a line of troops, against an onset of cavalry, by opposing bayonets raised obliquely forward.
fraise (plural fraises)
Nounfraise (plural fraises)
- (heraldry) A stylized strawberry with leaves.
- 1846, William Newton (Patent Agent), A Display of Heraldry, page 352:
- 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 ...
- 1846, William Newton (Patent Agent), A Display of Heraldry, page 352:
fraise
- (UK, dialect, dated) Commotion.
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