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Reamer vs Fraise - What's the difference?

reamer | fraise |

As nouns the difference between reamer and fraise

is that reamer is a tool for boring a hole wider while fraise is (historical) a ruff worn (especially by women) in the 16th century or fraise can be a large thick pancake with slices of bacon in it.

As a verb fraise is

(military) to protect, as a line of troops, against an onset of cavalry, by opposing bayonets raised obliquely forward.

reamer

English

(wikipedia reamer)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A tool for boring a hole wider.
  • A device for rendering citrus juice.
  • A tool used to scrape carbon deposit from the bowl of a pipe.
  • A Stone Age prehistoric lithic Stone tool, used in archeology nomenclature.

    • fraise

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) fraise, (fraiser).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (historical) A ruff worn (especially by women) in the 16th century.
  • A type of palisade placed for defence around a berm; a defence consisting of pointed stakes driven into the ramparts in a horizontal or inclined position.
  • A fluted reamer for enlarging holes in stone; a small milling cutter.

    • Verb

    (frais)
  • (military) To protect, as a line of troops, against an onset of cavalry, by opposing bayonets raised obliquely forward.
    • (Wilhelm)
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    Etymology 2

    See froise.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A large thick pancake with slices of bacon in it.
    • (Johnson)
    (Webster 1913) ----