bracer

¹

[ brey-ser ]

noun

1. a person or thing that braces, binds, or makes firm.
2. Informal. a stimulating drink, especially one of liquor.

bracer

²

[ brey-ser ]

noun

, Archery.

1. a guard or band worn over the wrist of the bow hand to protect it from the snap of the bowstring.

bracer

¹

/ ˈbreɪsə /

noun

1. a person or thing that braces
2. informal.
   a tonic, esp an alcoholic drink taken as a tonic

bracer

²

/ ˈbreɪsə /

noun

1. archery fencing a leather guard worn to protect the arm

Word History and Origins

Origin of bracer¹

First recorded in 1570–80; brace + -er ¹

Origin of bracer²

1350–1400; Middle English < Anglo-French; Old French braceure, equivalent to brace arm ( brace (noun)) + -ure -ure

Word History and Origins

Origin of bracer¹

C14: from Old French braciere , from braz arm, from Latin bracchium arm

Example Sentences

That experience was the greatest bracer I had ever had in my life.

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Bracer: a leathern defence for the arm: a similar shield is now worn in archery.

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I wanted a bracer badly, I can tell you, for we had participated in a very strenuous evening.

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At length Connery steered him into a saloon for medicine and bought him a stiff bracer of whisky and vermouth.

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Celerina belongs to what Samuel Hopkins Adams calls the bracer type of nostrum.

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