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

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

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