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Chevaux-De-Frise

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cheval-de-frise, pl. chevaux-de-frise
Sharply pointed nails or spikes set into the top of a barrier.
Chevaux-De-Frise 

anti-infantry obstacles usually consisting of three crosses (wooden or metal stakes up to 150 cm each in length) fastened to a long pole and strung with barbed wire lengthwise and crosswise. Chevaux-de-frise are made before or during military operations and are used as independent obstacles or to close off passages in other anti-infantry obstacles. Chevaux-de-frise were used in World Wars I and II.
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The former was effected by dragging the trunks of a few trees into the intervals left by the wagons, and along the open space between the vehicles and the thicket, on which, in military language, the encampment would be said to have rested; thus forming a sort of chevaux-de-frise on three sides of the position.
The Prairie by Cooper, James Fenimore View in context
As the whole party moved at a great pace, they soon reached the hut, where Hiram thought it prudent to halt on the outside of the top of the fallen pine, which formed a chevaux-de-frise, to defend the approach to the fortress, on the side next the village.
The Pioneers by Cooper, James Fenimore View in context
These staircases received light from sundry windows placed at some little distance above the floor, and looking into a gravelled area bounded by a high brick wall, with iron CHEVAUX-DE-FRISE at the top.
The Posthumous Papers Of The Pickwick Club by Dickens, Charles View in context
 
 
 
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