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SUSPENDERS |
Braces |
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STEELS |
Braces (oneself) |
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GIRDS |
Braces (oneself) |
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GALLOWS |
A pair of suspenders or braces. |
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POINTER |
Diagonal braces sometimes fixed across the hold. |
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EMBRACE |
Hug half of them with cut off braces |
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BRACER |
That which braces, binds, or makes firm; a band or bandage. |
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BRACE |
To move around by means of braces; as, to brace the
yards. |
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BRACING |
Any system of braces; braces, collectively; as, the
bracing of a truss. |
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PORTAL |
The space, at one end, between opposite trusses when these
are terminated by inclined braces. |
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TRUSS |
To strengthen or stiffen, as a beam or girder, by means of a
brace or braces. |
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STRETCHER |
A narrow crosspiece of the bottom of a boat against
which a rower braces his feet. |
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COUNTERBRACE |
To brace in such a way that opposite strains are
resisted; to apply counter braces to. |
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ELASTIC |
An elastic woven fabric, as a belt, braces or suspenders,
etc., made in part of India rubber. |
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LATTICING |
A system of bars crossing in the middle to form braces
between principal longitudinal members, as of a strut. |
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ROUND |
The step of a ladder; a rundle or rung; also, a crosspiece
which joins and braces the legs of a chair. |
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SUSPENDER |
One who, or that which, suspends; esp., one of a pair of
straps or braces worn over the shoulders, for holding up the trousers. |
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WEATHER |
Being toward the wind, or windward -- opposed to lee; as,
weather bow, weather braces, weather gauge, weather lifts, weather
quarter, weather shrouds, etc. |
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CROSS-SPALL |
One of the temporary wooden braces, placed
horizontally across a frame to hold it in position until the deck beams
are in; a cross-pawl. |
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CHAISE |
A two-wheeled carriage for two persons, with a calash top,
and the body hung on leather straps, or thorough-braces. It is usually
drawn by one horse. |
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TOPGALLANT |
...st;
designatb, or pertaining to, the third spars in order from the deck;
as, the topgallant mast, yards, braces, and the like. See Illustration
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BUTTING JOINT |
...the
end of one or both, and either at right angles or oblique to the grain,
as the joints which the struts and braces form with the truss posts;... |