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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Fraise \Fraise\, n. [See {Froise}.]
     A large and thick pancake, with slices of bacon in it. [Obs.]
     --Johnson.
     [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Fraise \Fraise\, n. [F. fraise, orig., a ruff, cf. F. frise
     frieze, E. frieze a coarse stuff.]
     1. (Fort.) A defense consisting of pointed stakes driven into
        the ramparts in a horizontal or inclined position.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. (Mech.) A fluted reamer for enlarging holes in stone; a
        small milling cutter.
        [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Fraise \Fraise\, v. t. (Mil.)
     To protect, as a line of troops, against an onset of cavalry,
     by opposing bayonets raised obliquely forward. --Wilhelm.
     [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Froise \Froise\, n. [OE. froise cf. F. froisser to bruise, E.
     frush to bruise,]
     A kind of pancake. See 1st {Fraise}. [Written also {fraise}.]
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  fraise
       n 1: a ruff for the neck worn in the 16th century
       2: sloping or horizontal rampart of pointed stakes

















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