fraise
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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
"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
According to some the name was derived from the fraise or 'strawberry' leaves in their arms, and it was related that they sprang from the Frezels of France.
From The Clan Fraser in Canada Souvenir of the First Annual Gathering by Fraser, Alexander
We have not spoken, in the above catalogue, either of the liver, or of the fraise, or of the ears, which also share the honour of appearing at our tables.
From The Book of Household Management by Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary)
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