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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

FRAISE, n.
1. In fortification, a defense consisting of pointed stakes driven into the retrenchments, parallel to the horizon.
2. A pancake with bacon in it. Obs.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a ruff for the neck worn in the 16th century
2: sloping or horizontal rampart of pointed stakes

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: French Date: 1775 an obstacle of pointed stakes driven into the ramparts of a fortification in a horizontal or inclined position

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Fraise Fraise, n. [See Froise.] A large and thick pancake, with slices of bacon in it. [Obs.] --Johnson.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Fraise Fraise, n. [F. fraise, orig., a ruff, cf. F. frise frieze, E. frieze a coarse stuff.] 1. (Fort.) A defense consisting of pointed stakes driven into the ramparts in a horizontal or inclined position. 2. (Mech.) A fluted reamer for enlarging holes in stone; a small milling cutter.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Fraise Fraise, v. t. (Mil.) To protect, as a line of troops, against an onset of cavalry, by opposing bayonets raised obliquely forward. --Wilhelm.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Froise Froise, n. [OE. froise cf. F. froisser to bruise, E. frush to bruise,] A kind of pancake. See 1st Fraise. [Written also fraise.]