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main brace

main brace is the alternative form of mainbrace.

Meaning of mainbrace

Noun

mainbrace (plural mainbraces)

  1. The rope (or sheet) used to control the main yard. The main yard is the spar set across the mast, from which the mainsail is hung.

Forms of main brace

pluralmain braces

Questions about main brace

What is main brace the alternative form of?
Main brace is the alternative form of mainbrace.

Words near main brace in the dictionary

  1. main battle tanks
  2. main belt
  3. main belts
  4. main bitch
  5. main bitches
  6. main brace
  7. Main Brook
  8. main building
  9. main buildings
  10. main chance
  11. main character

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Adapted from Wiktionary: main brace (page history and authors); mainbrace (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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