Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Herisson"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Herisson \Her"is*son\, n. [F. h['e]risson, prop., hedgehog.]
(fort.)
A beam or bar armed with iron spikes, and turning on a pivot;
-- used to block up a passage.
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