- (n.) The cheek or side of an ordnance carriage.
- (n.) A gas fixture or lamp holder projecting from the face of a wall, column or the like.
- (v.t.) To place within brackets; to connect by brackets; to furnish with brackets.
- (n.) A shot, crooked timber, resembling a knee, used as a support.
- (n.) A piece or combination of pieces, usually triangular in general shape, projecting from or fastened to, a wall or other surface, to support heavy bodies or to strengthen angles.
- (n.) One of two characters [], used to inclose a reference, explanation or note or a part to be excluded from a sentence, to indicate an interpolation, to rectify a mistake or to supply an omission, and for certain other purposes; -- called also crotchet.
- (n.) An architectural member, plain or ornamental, projecting from a wall or pier, to support weight falling outside of the same; also, a decorative feature seeming to discharge such an office.
- (v.t.) To shoot so as to establish a bracket for (an object).
- (n.) A figure determined by firing a projectile beyond a target and another short of it, as a basis for ascertaining the proper elevation of the piece; -- only used in the phrase, to establish a bracket. After the bracket is established shots are fired with intermediate elevations until the exact range is obtained. In the United States navy it is called fork.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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