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Definition of Cheval-de-frise
1. Noun. Defensive structure consisting of a movable obstacle composed of barbed wire or spikes attached to a wooden frame; used to obstruct cavalry.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cheval-de-frise
Literary usage of Cheval-de-frise
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Elements of Field Fortifications: For the Use of the Cadets of the by Junius Brutus Wheeler (1882)
"A cheval-de-frise (Fig. 68) is a square timber, perforated with holes in which
sticks shod with iron are inserted. The holes are placed about six inches ..."
2. The United Service (1884)
"... prevent the rushing, he proposed to place a cheval-de-frise across the
rip-rapping at each end of the gorge wall. ..."
3. Battles and Leaders of the Civil War by Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buel (1887)
"His captain had conceived the idea that a cheval-de-frise across the riprapping
at the salient angles of the fort would confine the enemy 011 whatever face ..."
4. Encyclopaedia Britannica; Or A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and (1823)
"CHEVAL de FRISE, a large piece of timber pierced, and traversed with wooden pikes,
armed or pointed with iron, five or six feet long. See Plate CXXXVII. ..."
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