or Braffe, is also a foreign measure, answering to our fathom. See Fathom.

in Architecture, a piece of timber framed in with bevel joints, the use of which is to keep the building from wavering either way. When the brace is framed into the kingless or principal rafters, it is by some called a strut.

in writing or printing, a crooked line enclosing a passage, as in a triplet.