fraise

Noun

A barrier of pointed stakes used for defense.
a ruff for the neck worn in the 16th century
sloping or horizontal rampart of pointed stakes
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 form of froise (“kind of pancake or omelette”).
A stylized strawberry with leaves.
Commotion.

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.

Examples

He built a strategic FRAISE of tiles around his bonus squares, protecting them from his opponent.

Origin / 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 Middle Dutch vreisen, vresen (“to be afraid; to endanger, threaten, frighten”), from Old Dutch *freisōn, *frēsōn, from the same Proto-West Germanic source above.

Scrabble Score: 9

fraise: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
fraise: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
fraise: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 9

fraise: valid Words With Friends Word