[ad. F. fraiser, f. fraise: see FRAISE sb.1] trans. To fence or defend with or as with a fraise.
1706. Phillips (ed. Kersey), To Fraise a Battallion, (in the Art of War) is to line it every way with Pikes, that it may stand the Shock of a Body of Horse.
1802. C. James, Milit. Dict., s.v. Fraiser…. Fraiser un battaillon is to fraise or fence all the musquetry-men belonging to a battalion with pikes, to oppose the irruption of cavalry should it charge them in a plain.
1876. Bancroft, Hist. U. S., V. iv. 371. The American lines in Brooklyn, including angles, and four redoubts which mounted twenty large and small cannon, ran for a mile and a half from Wallabout Bay to the marsh of Gowanus Cove; they were defended by ditches and felled trees; the counterscarp and parapet were fraised with sharpened stakes.
