Fraise

Quick meaning: Fraise is a verb meaning (transitive, archaic) To put in danger, in terror, or at risk.

Meaning

(transitive, archaic) To put in danger, in terror, or at risk.

More Meanings

1. A fluted reamer for enlarging holes in stone; a small milling cutter.
2. A tool for cutting the teeth of a timepiece's wheel to correct inaccuracies.
3. (military) To protect, as a line of troops, against an onset of cavalry, by opposing bayonets raised obliquely forward.
4. 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.
5. Alternative form of froise (“kind of pancake or omelette”).
6. (historical) A ruff worn (especially by women) in the 16th century.
7. (historical) An embroidered scarf with its ends crossed over the chest and pinned, worn (especially by women) in the 19th century.

Example Sentences

to fraise a battaion is to line or cover it every way with bayonets

The Emperor also gave the family three fraises, or stalked strawberries, for their coat of arms.

Az. a fraise arg. between three garbs or, all within a bordure engrailed of the second. George Cumming (1790)

It is related of Sarah, the Duchess of Marlborough, that no one could cook a fraise, as it was then called, for the great duke but herself.

Word Forms

• fraises
• fraising
• fraised

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include jeopardize, endanger, danger, jump, risk, frap.

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