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vb. (context nautical English) to bring the yards more square to the fore and aft line
Usage examples of "brace in".
The gatlog-laiches carried one brace of pistols in the pommel holsters and a second brace in their boot tops, and like as not yet another one or two thrust under their belts, or a wheellock long gun slung across their backs.
And Billy let himself down oh so gradually now, hanging onto the diagonal cross-brace in the comer in order to make himself seem nearly weightless to those he was joining on the floor.
A man inside shoved them shut again by hand and jammed a metal brace in their slot.
Holding the pencil in his right hand, he gripped the brace in the middle, and he pointed one end at a nearby tree but away from his body.
He clamps the brace in the box vice, measures it against the original, and shortens it with the crosscut saw, then rasps and files it smooth.
The galloglaiches carried one brace of pistols in the pommel holsters and a second brace in their boot tops, and like as not yet another one or two thrust under their belts, or a wheel-lock long gun slung across their backs.