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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A defensive barrier of pointed inclined stakes or barbed wire.
  2. n. A ruff for the neck worn in the 16th century.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To put in terror or danger.
  2. n. A pancake with bacon in it.
  3. n. In heraldry, the conventional strawberry-leaf, as those in the coronets of English dukes, marquises, etc.
  4. n. In fortification, a defense consisting of pointed stakes driven into the ramparts in a horizontal or an inclined position. See cut under fortification.
  5. n. A tool used by marble-workers for enlarging a drill-hole. It is grooved and somewhat conical.

Wiktionary

  1. v. transitive, obsolete To terrify; endanger.
  2. v. military To protect, as a line of troops, against an onset of cavalry, by opposing bayonets raised obliquely forward.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. obsolete A large and thick pancake, with slices of bacon in it.
  2. n. (Fort.) A defense consisting of pointed stakes driven into the ramparts in a horizontal or inclined position.
  3. n. (Mech.) A fluted reamer for enlarging holes in stone; a small milling cutter.
  4. v. (Mil.) To protect, as a line of troops, against an onset of cavalry, by opposing bayonets raised obliquely forward.

WordNet 3.0

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

Etymologies

  1. From Middle English fraisen, from Old English frēasian, frāsian ("to ask, inquire, find out by inquiry, tempt, try"), from Proto-Germanic *fraisōnan (“to try”), from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to try, risk”). Cognate with Middle Low German vrēsen ("to try, adjust"), Middle High German vreisen ("to endanger, terrify"), Danish friste ("to try, tempt"), Swedish fresta ("to try, tempt, tantalise"), Icelandic freista ("to tempt"). More at fraist. (Wiktionary)
  2. French, from Old French, mesentery (from its pleated shape), from (feves) frasees, shelled (beans), from the resemblance between the mesentery and the peel surrounding individual broad beans, from Latin (faba) frēsa, ground (bean), feminine past participle of frendere, to crush; see frenum. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  1. rampart
  1. wall
  1. bulwark
  1. ruffle
  1. ruff
  1. neck ruff
  1. choker

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  • hernesheir Berry convincing dialog, bilby! Dec 7, 2012

  • gangerh HaHa! Very good, 'by,
    Dec 7, 2012

  • fbharjo It is only a fraga-mint! Dec 7, 2012

  • bilby In the industrial workshops of Toulouse, 1882...
    Louis: Merde! Just dropped strawberries all over this expensive bit of cloth we've been working on all week.
    Bertrand: Fuck. Hang on, has 'fuck' entered French yet?
    Louis: Close enough.
    Bertrand Fucque! Looks like they'll dock our wages again and we'll be peasants grovelling in crud and croissants for rest of our days.
    Louis: ça me dérange.
    Bertrand: It's kinda artistic though, you gotta admit. That big red splodge of strazzleberry bleeding across the cloth. Pink tide. Strawberry fields forever, because the stain won't wash out. Not even with Eauxmeaux in cold water. But I like it.
    Louis: Yeah, but will in play in Peorie?
    Bertrand: Dunno. We could always give it a poncy name. That's been known to work for turning any old French dreck into an object of desire.
    Louis: Any suggestions? You're the wanqueur around here.
    Bertrand: Hmmm. I'm going fraise.
    Louis: Fraise. Yes. As long as no-one confuses our design with a tool used by marble-workers for enlarging a drill-hole, or even a pancake with bacon in it worn around the neck in the 16th century.
    Bertrand: We'll wing it.
    Louis: Yeppers.
    Dec 7, 2012

  • hernesheir "Another color recently popularized is the "crushed strawberry", the fraise color which French milliners introduced last year." Littel's Living Age, Oct. 20, 1883. Dec 5, 2012

  • fbharjo up tight - going through a fraise May 24, 2009

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