Definitions for cheval-de-frise

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cheval-de-frise che·val-de-frise

Spelling: [shuh-val-duh-freez]

IPA: /ʃəˈvæl dəˈfriz/

Cheval-De-Frise is a 15 letter English word.

You can make 1720 anagrams from letters in cheval-de-frise (--acdeeefhilrsv).

Definitions for cheval-de-frise

noun

1. a portable obstacle, usually a sawhorse, covered with projecting spikes or barbed wire, for military use in closing a passage, breaking in a defensive wall, etc.

Origin of cheval-de-frise

1680-90; French; literally, horse of Friesland, so called because first used by Frisians

Examples for cheval-de-frise

A cheval-de-frise consists of a horizontal piece of timber armed with wooden or iron lances, which project some eight or ten feet.

These must be sharpened, and as the walls are built, fixed among the stones so as to make a cheval-de-frise.

He looked again and saw a great htel, surrounded by a high wall, along the top of which, ran a cheval-de-frise.

There is a low wall there, and a cheval-de-frise on the top of it.