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STEADYING |
Bracing |
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SPAR |
Bracing strut |
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NERVING |
Bracing (self) |
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CLAMP |
Bracing machine |
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TONIC |
Bracing medicine |
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QUICK |
Fresh; bracing; sharp; keen. |
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STRUT |
Bracing bar groove under street |
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OZONE |
Australian number has a bracing air |
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PALE |
A shore for bracing a timber before it is fastened. |
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SWAY-BRACING |
The horizontal bracing of a bridge, which prevents
its swaying. |
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BRACING |
Imparting strength or tone; strengthening; invigorating;
as, a bracing north wind. |
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BRIDGEING |
The system of bracing used between floor or other
timbers to distribute the weight. |
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LACING |
A system of bracing bars, not crossing each other in the
middle, connecting the channel bars of a compound strut. |
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TRUSSING |
The art of stiffening or bracing a set of timbers, or the
like, by putting in struts, ties, etc., till it has something of the
character of a truss. |
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CHAPEL |
To cause (a ship taken aback in a light breeze) so to
turn or make a circuit as to recover, without bracing the yards, the
same tack on which she had been sailing. |
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BOXHAUL |
To put (a vessel) on the other tack by veering her
short round on her heel; -- so called from the circumstance of bracing
the head yards abox (i. e., sharp aback, on the wind). |