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Cheval-de-Frise

Webster's Dictionary

(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.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Cheval-de-Frise'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​c/cheval-de-frise.html. 1828.