mainbrace
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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An on-board extra for Kiss' hard-partying fans is the chance to splice more than just the mainbrace.
From BBC
The men on board give a loud cry; the chief mate springs wildly to the starboard quarter, and, making the end of the mainbrace hanging there fast round his waist, drops into the sea.
From Project Gutenberg
"No, sir; I ain't going to offer any except 'Hands, splice the mainbrace!'"
From Project Gutenberg
Then he doled out the latter and ordered the mainbrace to be spliced.
From Project Gutenberg
In Exercise Mainbrace last September, a task group was assigned the job of protecting part of Scandinavia during a supposed attack "by a hypothetical Eurasian power."
From Time Magazine Archive
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