noun. A defensive barrier of pointed inclined stakes or barbed wire.

noun. A ruff for the neck worn in the 1500s.

noun. A pancake with bacon in it.

noun. In fortification, a defense consisting of pointed stakes driven into the ramparts in a horizontal or an inclined position. See cut under fortification.

noun. A tool used by marble-workers for enlarging a drill-hole. It is grooved and somewhat conical.

To put in terror or danger.

noun. In heraldry, the conventional strawberry-leaf, as those in the coronets of English dukes, marquises, etc.

noun. A defense consisting of pointed stakes driven into the ramparts in a horizontal or inclined position.

noun. A fluted reamer for enlarging holes in stone; a small milling cutter.

noun. A large and thick pancake, with slices of bacon in it.

transitive verb. To protect, as a line of troops, against an onset of cavalry, by opposing bayonets raised obliquely forward.

verb. To terrify; endanger.

verb. To protect, as a line of troops, against an onset of cavalry, by opposing bayonets raised obliquely forward.

noun. sloping or horizontal rampart of pointed stakes

noun. a ruff for the neck worn in the 16th century