Look up: Cheval-de-frise

1. Cheval de Frise
   Portable barrier of sword blades used to block breaches. Could also be made of stake- or sword studded beams.
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2. Cheval De Frise
   The Cheval de Frise (horse of Friesland) was the fore-runner of barbed wire entanglements used in warfare. It was a fortification comprised of timber pierced and traversed with wooden spikes pointed with iron five or six feet long and used for stopping a breach, defending a passage or making entrenc...
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3. Cheval de frise
   The `cheval de frise` (plural: `chevaux de frise`) was a Medieval defensive obstacle consisting of a portable frame (sometimes just a simple log) covered with many long iron or wooden spikes or even actual spears. They were principally intended as an anti-cavalry obstacle but could also be moved qui...
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4. cheval-de-frise
   [n] - defensive structure consisting of a movable obstacle composed of barbed wire or spikes attached to a wooden frame
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5. Cheval-de-frise
   Che·val'-de-frise' noun ; commonly used in the plural Chevaux-de- frise . [ F.; cheval horse + Frise Friesland, where it was first used.] (Mil.) A piece of timber or an iron barrel traversed with iron-pointed s...
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6. cheval-de-frise
   chevaux-de-frise noun defensive structure consisting of a movable obstacle composed of barbed wire or spikes attached to a wooden frame; used to obstruct cavalry
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7. Cheval-de-frise
   • (n.) A piece of timber or an iron barrel traversed with iron-pointed spikes or spears, five or six feet long, used to defend a passage, stop a breach, or impede the advance of cavalry, etc.
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