A defensive palisade.
1775. By the time we arrived there, the fraise around the berme would be destroyed.—R. Montgomery in Sparks’s ‘Corr. Am. Revol.’ (1853), i. 470. (N.E.D.)
1821. He fastened, with the skewer, the corner of his blanket round a picket of the fraising; so that it might hang at the greatest length beneath him.—T. Dwight, ‘Travels,’ ii. 191.
