Braces, on shipboard, are ropes attached to the yard-arms, and employed to turn or swing the yards round.
Braces
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 2: Beaugency to Cataract, p. 380
Source scan(s): p. 0391
Braces, on shipboard, are ropes attached to the yard-arms, and employed to turn or swing the yards round.