pheeze

Noun

feeze (plural feezes)

1. (US, dialectal) A state of worry or alarm.
   • All this time, they were chattering; but at last I thought, by the sound of their voices, that they must be walking away, and I never was in such a feeze in all my life, in case they should be gone before I could get up the wall ; and when I did get up it, sure enough, gone they was!1797, Hannah Webster Foster, The Coquette, page 203
2. (US, dialectal, also fetch one's feeze) A rush, impetus, or a violent impact; also, a rub.
   • […]though you haue fetched your feaze, yet to looke well ere you leape.1577, Raphael Holinshed, quoting James Butler, “The thirde Booke of the Historie of Ireland, comprising the raigne of Henry the eyght”, in The firste [laste] volume of the chronicles of England...
3. (Scotland, obsolete) A device for wedging items into a tight space.
   • setting up the most expedient agricolary instruments of wains, carts, slades, with their several devices of wheels and axle-trees, plows and harrows of divers sorts, feezes, winders, pullies, and all other manner of engines fit for easing the toyl and furthering the work;1653, Sir Thomas Urquhart, Logopandecteision

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