[frey] 
| 1. | a fight, battle, or skirmish. |
| 2. | a competition or contest, esp. in sports. |
| 3. | a noisy quarrel or brawl. |
| 4. | Archaic. fright. |
| 5. | Archaic. to frighten. |
| 6. | Archaic. to fight or brawl. |
[frey] | 1. | to wear (cloth, rope, etc.) to loose, raveled threads or fibers at the edge or end; cause to ravel out. |
| 2. | to wear by rubbing (sometimes fol. by through). |
| 3. | to cause strain on (something); upset; discompose: The argument frayed their nerves. |
| 4. | to rub. |
| 5. | to become frayed, as cloth; ravel out: My sweater frayed at the elbows. |
| 6. | to rub against something: tall grass fraying against my knees. |
| 7. | a frayed part, as in cloth: frays at the toes of well-worn sneakers. |
| fray 1 (frā) n.
[Middle English frai, shortening of affrai; see affray.] |
| fray 2 (frā) v. frayed, fray·ing, frays v. tr.
To become worn away or tattered along the edges. n. A frayed or threadbare spot, as on fabric. [Middle English fraien, to wear, bruise, from Old French fraier, to rub, from Latin fricāre.] |
