fraise

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"Ferry Hills" Fort—Earth and concrete—Very deep ditches, flanked by counterscarp galleries and a stone caponier—Casemated—Probable armament—Two 9.2-inch guns, six 7.5-inch guns—Wrought-iron fraise below counterscarp.

From Spies of the Kaiser Plotting the Downfall of England by Le Queux, William

Here Confederate Gilmer's engineering skill has prepared ditch and fraise, abattis and chevaux-de-frise, with yawning graves for the soon-forgotten brave.

From The Little Lady of Lagunitas A Franco-Californian Romance by Savage, Richard

A fraise is a palisade horizontal, or nearly so, projecting from the scarp or counterscarp.

From Manual of Military Training Second, Revised Edition by Moss, James A. (James Alfred)

I caused a sloping picket fence, technically called a fraise, to be projected over the parapet on my side of the work, as an obstacle against an escalading party.

From Reminiscences of Forts Sumter and Moultrie in 1860-'61 by Doubleday, Abner

It was the image of a woman in furred robes and spreading fraise, her hand lifted, her face addressed to the tabernacle.

From Crucial Instances by Wharton, Edith