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braced frame

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noun

Carpentry.

  1. a building frame employing a heavy, braced framework of solid girts mortised into solid posts the full height of the frame, with studs one story high filling the interstices.

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The float, rising and falling with the stream, is held in position by a braced frame swinging on anchorages within the mill on shore, and parallel with a swiveled shaft.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 799, April 25, 1891 by Various

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