fraise

Meanings

Verb

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

Noun

• 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.
• A ruff worn (especially by women) in the 16th century.
• An embroidered scarf with its ends crossed over the chest and pinned, worn (especially by women) in the 19th century.
• A fluted reamer for enlarging holes in stone; a small milling cutter.
• A tool for cutting the teeth of a timepiece's wheel to correct inaccuracies.
• Alternative of froise
• A stylized strawberry with leaves.
• Commotion.

Origin

• 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").
• Borrowed from French fraise ("ruff"), fraiser; compare French friser ("curl"), perhaps from Provençal frezar; ultimately from Germanic.
• See froise.
• Borrowed from French fraise ("strawberry"), from earlier *fraige, from Latin frāga.