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| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Chevaux de Frise (French). Horses of Friesland. A beam filled with spikes to keep off horses, so called from its use in the siege of Groningen, Friesland, in 1594. A somewhat similar engine had been used before, but was not called by the same name. In German it is "a Spanish horseman" (ein Spanischer Reiter). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Defense | Safeguard; (safety); balistraria; bunker, screen; (shelter); camouflage; (concealment); fortification; munition, muniment; trench, foxhole; bulwark, fosse, moat, ditch, entrenchment, intrenchment; kila; dike, dyke; parapet, sunk fence, embankment, mound, mole, bank, sandbag, revetment; earth work, field-work; fence, wall dead wall, contravallation; paling; (inclosure); palisade, haha, stockade, stoccado, laager, sangar; barrier, barricade; boom; portcullis, chevaux de frise; abatis, abattis, abbatis; vallum, circumvallation, battlement, rampart, scarp; escarp, counter-scarp; glacis, casemate; vallation, vanfos. |
Sharpness | Beard, chevaux de frise, porcupine, hedgehog, brier, bramble, thistle; comb; awn, beggar's lice, bur, burr, catchweed, cleavers, clivers, goose, grass, hairif, hariff, flax comb, hackle, hatchel, heckle. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "CHEVAUX DE FRISE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | рогатка, заострени шипове на ограда. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | spanyollovas. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | evauxchay eday isefray escudo de cavalaria. (various references) рогатка (catapult, knife-rest, sling, slingshot). (various references) krstilo. (various references) väggspärr. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | ericius. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-e-e-f-h-i-r-s-u-v-x" | |
-4 letters: echeverias, federacies. | |
-5 letters: achievers, cashiered, ceasefire, chivareed, chivarees, deceivers, echeveria, exarchies, excursive, exercised, feudaries, shivareed. | |
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