Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

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

Example Sentences

Among the most conspicuous is the pelerine collar, made of black velvet, and forming a fraise round the throat. The fraise is lined with such light-colored silks as pink and blue, and the pelerine is piped with silk of the same color.

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

Take a fraise and one udder or two (according to their size) of the veal, blanch and let them cool, mince them ; hash some mushrooms, shalots, parsley, and truffle;

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.

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 ...

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

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

Word Forms

• fraises
• fraising
• fraised

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When Should You Use Fraise?

Use fraise when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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