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counterbrace

counterbrace is a 12-letter English word with 4 senses as transitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The brace of the fore-topsail on the leeward side of a vessel. Face value is 18 in Scrabble and 23 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

12 letters · Scrabble 18 · Words With Friends 23 · 4 senses

Definitions

  1. 1

    The brace of the fore-topsail on the leeward side of a vessel.

  2. 2

    A brace, in a framed structure, which resists a strain of a character opposite to that which a main brace is designed to receive.

  3. 3transitive verb

    To brace in opposite directions; as, to counterbrace the yards, i. e., to brace the head yards one way and the after yards another.

  4. 4transitive verb

    To brace in such a way that opposite strains are resisted; to apply counter braces to.

Common word forms

counterbracing

Words from these letters

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