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noun
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A ruff worn (especially by women) in the 16th century.
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Usage: historical
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noun
An embroidered scarf with its ends crossed over the chest and pinned, worn (especially by women) in the 19th century.
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Usage: historical
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noun
A fluted reamer for enlarging holes in stone; a small milling cutter.
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A tool for cutting the teeth of a timepiece's wheel to correct inaccuracies.
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noun
Alternative form of froise (“kind of pancake or omelette”).
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Usage: alt-of, alternative
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noun
A stylized strawberry with leaves.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: government, heraldry, hobbies, lifestyle, monarchy, nobility, politics
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noun
Commotion.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, dated, dialectal
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verb
To put in danger, in terror, or at risk.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, transitive
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verb
To protect, as a line of troops, against an onset of cavalry, by opposing bayonets raised obliquely forward.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: government, military, politics, war
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noun
sloping or horizontal rampart of pointed stakes
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: rampart, bulwark, wall
noun
a ruff for the neck worn in the 16th century
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: choker, ruff, ruffle, neck ruff
History
Borrowed from French fraise (“ruff”), fraiser; compare French friser (“curl”), perhaps from Provençal frezar; ultimately from Germanic.
See froise.
Borrowed from French fraise (“strawberry”), from earlier *fraige, from Latin frāga.
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.
