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Definition fraise

Etymology 1

From Middle English fraisen, from Old English fr?sian (“to ask, try, tempt”), from Proto-Germanic *frais?n? (“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”).

Verb

fraise (third-person singular simple present fraises, present participle fraising, simple past and past participle fraised)

1. (transitive, archaic) To put in danger, terror, or at risk.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French fraise (“ruff”), fraiser; compare French friser (“curl”), perhaps from Provençal frezar; ultimately from Germanic).

Noun

fraise (plural fraises)

1. 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.
2. (historical) A ruff worn (especially by women) in the 16th century.
3. (historical) An embroidered scarf with its ends crossed over the chest and pinned, worn (especially by women) in the 19th century.
4. A fluted reamer for enlarging holes in stone; a small milling cutter.
5. A tool for cutting the teeth of a timepiece's wheel to correct inaccuracies.

Verb

fraise (third-person singular simple present fraises, present participle fraising, simple past and past participle fraised)

1. (military) To protect, as a line of troops, against an onset of cavalry, by opposing bayonets raised obliquely forward.

Etymology 3

See froise.

Noun

fraise (plural fraises)

1. A large thick pancake with slices of bacon in it.

Etymology 4

Borrowed from French fraise (“strawberry”), from earlier *fraige, from Latin fr?ga.

Noun

fraise (plural fraises)

1. (Gallicism, chiefly cooking, rare) A strawberry.

Etymology 5

Noun

fraise

1. (Britain, dialectal, dated) commotion

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