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

What needs there be sae great a fraise Wi' dringing dull Italian lays?

From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Rogers, Charles

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