Noah Webster
Chevachie
CHEVACHIE, noun An expedition with cavalry.
CHEVAL DE FRISE, generally used in the plural, chevaux de frise, pronounced shevo de freez.
1. A piece of timber traversed with wooden spikes, pointed with iron, five or six feet long; used to defend a passage, stop a breach, or make a retrenchment to stop cavalry.
2. A kind of trimming.