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fraise

Pronunciation: /ˈfɹeɪ̯z/

The English word “fraise” has 9 meanings listed here.

verb

  1. To put in danger, in terror, or at risk.
  2. To protect, as a line of troops, against an onset of cavalry, by opposing bayonets raised obliquely forward.

noun

  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. A ruff worn (especially by women) in the 16th century.
  3. 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.
  6. A stylized strawberry with leaves.
  7. Commotion.

Etymology

From Middle English fraisen, from Old English frāsian (“to ask, try, tempt”), from Proto-Germanic *fraisōną (“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”). Alternatively the Middle English fraisen was borrowed from…

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