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▪ I. fraise, n.1|freɪz|
[a. F. fraise fem.
The F. word is app. a transferred use of the earlier fraise mesentery of a calf; for a similar development of meaning see chitterling; cf. also frill n.1]
1. A ruff such as was worn in the 16th century.
1801C. Smith Solit. Wanderer II. 136 The stranger had already caught a glimpse, between the trees, of the white fraise she wore. 1830James Darnley xv, A beautiful standing ruff, or fraise, as the French termed it. 1876Ouida Winter City ii. 22 She had..a high fraise; sleeves, etc.
2. Fortif. A palisade, made horizontal or slightly inclining to the horizon, placed for defence round a work near the berm.
1775R. Montgomery in Sparks Corr. Amer. Rev. (1853) I. 470 By the time we arrived there, the fraise around the berme would be destroyed. 1851J. S. Macaulay Field Fortif. 91 The stakes of the fraise should be 11 feet long. 1876Bancroft Hist. U.S. VI. liv. 427 The storming party..broke through the fraises and mounted the parapet.
▪ II. fraise, n.2|freɪz|
[a. F. fraise fem., f. fraiser, fraser, to enlarge a circular hole, f. fraise (see prec.).]
A tool used for enlarging a circular hole; also, in Watchmaking, for cutting teeth in a wheel.
1874Knight Dict. Mech. I. 912 Fraise..2 a tool used by marble-workers to enlarge a hole made by a drill. 1884F. J. Britten Watch & Clockm. 125 If the fraise chosen is too large, it will cut a jagged and uneven tooth.
▪ III. fraise, n.3 dial.|freɪz|
[cf. frais v.]
A ‘fuss’, commotion.
1725Ramsay Gentl. Sheph. i. ii, He may, indeed, for ten or fifteen days, Mak meikle o' ye, wi' an unco fraise. 1801R. Anderson Cumberld. Ball. (1808) 18 Atween the twee there's sec a frase. 1809F. Donaldson Poems 77 (Northumbld. Gloss.) The auld wives aften mak' a fraise. 1871C. Gibbon Lack of Gold xxvi, Let him have his own way, instead of standing here making a fraise about nothing.
b. Comb.
1683T. Hunt Def. Charter Lond. 10 This Frace-maker and Scaramuchi to the vain youth of the nation, is ever enterchanging the characters of men.
▪ IV. fraise, v.|freɪz|
[ad. F. fraiser, f. fraise: see fraise n.1]
trans. To fence or defend with or as with a fraise.
1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), To Fraise a Battalion. 1802C. James Milit. Dict. s.v. Fraiser, Fraiser un battaillon is to fraise or fence all the musquetry-men belonging to a battalion with pikes, to oppose the irruption of cavalry. 1876Bancroft Hist. U.S. V. iv. 371 The counterscarp and parapet were fraised with sharpened stakes.
▪ V. fraise
var. of froise, a pancake. |