fraise

Meanings

1. To put in danger, in terror, or at risk.

1. 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.
2. A ruff worn (especially by women) in the 16th century.
3. An embroidered scarf with its ends crossed over the chest and pinned, worn (especially by women) in the 19th century.
4. A fluted reamer for enlarging holes in stone; a small milling cutter.
5. A tool for cutting the teeth of a timepiece's wheel to correct inaccuracies.

1. To protect, as a line of troops, against an onset of cavalry, by opposing bayonets raised obliquely forward.

1. Alternative form of froise (“kind of pancake or omelette”).

1. A stylized strawberry with leaves.

1. Commotion.

Etymology

From Middle English fraisen, from Old English frāsian (“to ask, try, tempt”), from Proto-Germanic *fraisōną (“to attempt, try”), from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to attempt, try; risk, peril”). Cognate with West Frisian freezje (“to fear”), Dutch vrezen (“to fear, dread, be afraid”), German freisen (“to put at risk, endanger, terrify”). Alternatively the Middle English fraisen was borrowed from Middle Dutch vreisen, vresen (“to be afraid; to endanger, threaten, frighten”), from Old Dutch *freisōn, *frēsōn, from the same Proto-West Germanic source above.