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▪ I. ˈmain-brace1 Naut.
[See main a. and brace n.3]
The brace attached to the main-yard.
1487Naval Acc. Hen. VII (1896) 67 Mayne brases. 1626Capt. Smith Accid. Yng. Seamen 28 Ease your mayne brases. 1801Col. Stewart Narr. in Nicolas Disp. Nelson (1845) IV. 309 By another shot several of the Marines, while hauling on the main-brace shared the same fate. 1840R. H. Dana Bef. Mast xxiii. 69 All the rest of the crew..tallied on to the main brace.
b. Naut. slang. to splice the main-brace: to serve out ‘grog’; hence, to drink freely.
1805Naval Chron. XIII. 480 Now splice the main brace. 1833Marryat P. Simple xv, Mr. Falcon, splice the main⁓brace, and call the watch. 1836H. Martineau Autobiog. (1877) II. App. 480 Yesterday the captain shouted, for the first time, ‘Splice the main-brace’.
▪ II. ˈmain-brace2
[See main a. and brace n.2]
A principal brace; Mech. in a system of braces, that which resists the main strain.
1680Sir J. Foulis Acct. Bk. 13 Aug. (Sc. Hist. Soc.) 487 To James Wilson, sadler, for..helping y⊇ main braces. 1794W. Felton Carriages (1801) I. 210 Main braces..Are what the body [of the coach] hangs by. 1870Spon's Dict. Engin. II. 679 (Bridges) In Fig. 1394, U is the upper chord..M, main-brace. |