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bracer
1[ brey-ser ]
noun
- a person or thing that braces, binds, or makes firm.
- Informal. a stimulating drink, especially one of liquor.
bracer
2[ brey-ser ]
noun
- 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
- a person or thing that braces
- informal.a tonic, esp an alcoholic drink taken as a tonic
bracer
2/ ˈbreɪsə /
noun
- archery fencing a leather guard worn to protect the arm
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Origin of bracer1
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Example Sentences
That experience was the greatest bracer I had ever had in my life.
Bracer: a leathern defence for the arm: a similar shield is now worn in archery.
I wanted a bracer badly, I can tell you, for we had participated in a very strenuous evening.
At length Connery steered him into a saloon for medicine and bought him a stiff bracer of whisky and vermouth.
Celerina belongs to what Samuel Hopkins Adams calls the bracer type of nostrum.
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