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

in Architecture, a piece of timber framed in with bevil joints, the use of which is to keep the building from swerving 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.