Counter brace
- A brace, in a framed structure, which resists a strain of a character opposite to that which a main brace is designed to receive.
- The brace of the fore-topsail on the leeward side of a vessel.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.