Bracer
a person or thing that braces, binds, or makes firm.
Informal. a stimulating drink, especially one of liquor.
a guard or band worn over the wrist of the bow hand to protect it from the snap of the bowstring.
Historical Examples
McClure’s Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908. Various
Cy Whittaker’s Place Joseph C. Lincoln
Psychoanalysis Andr Tridon
Her Ladyship’s Elephant David Dwight Wells
Hunting with the Bow and Arrow Saxton Pope
Stories That End Well Octave Thanet
Those Times And These Irvin S. Cobb
Caruso and Tetrazzini on the Art of Singing Enrico Caruso and Luisa Tetrazzini
Hunting with the Bow and Arrow Saxton Pope
Laugh and Live Douglas Fairbanks
noun
a person or thing that braces
(informal) a tonic, esp an alcoholic drink taken as a tonic
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(archery, fencing) a leather guard worn to protect the arm
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