A dialectal or archaic form meaning to rub, wear away, or perhaps to erase; an obsolete variant of 'fray' or related words.
Possibly from the same roots as 'fray' or 'frieze,' though the exact etymology is uncertain. It appears in some dialectal English contexts as a regional variant.
Words like 'fraze' that appear in only a handful of historical texts teach us that English had far more regional variation before mass media standardized pronunciation and spelling across the entire English-speaking world.
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