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

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

A palisade or barrier consisting of an inclined or horizontal fence of wooden stakes.

A defense of closely placed stakes or logs, 6 to 8 feet long, driven or dug into the ground and sharpened; arranged to point horizontally or obliquely outward from a defensive position.

or fraising. A defense of closely placed stakes or logs driven or dug obliquely into the ground in front of a fortification and sharpened.

sloping or horizontal rampart of pointed stakes

The horizontal or down-sloping palisade round the berme.

A palisade of sharpened wooden stakes projecting out-ward in a horizontal fashion from the rampart to prevent an enemy from taking the fort by surprise.

(Fr.) - row of pointed logs set close together and inclined toward the enemy, often erected in the exterior ditch of a redoubt to prevent attackers from scaling the parapets.  Sometimes called a palisade.