counterbrace

English

Etymology

counter- +‎ brace

Verb

counterbrace (third-person singular simple present counterbraces, present participle counterbracing, simple past and past participle counterbraced)

1. (nautical, transitive) To brace in opposite directions.

   To counterbrace the yards is to brace the head yards one way and the after yards another.

2. (engineering, transitive) To brace in such a way that opposite strains are resisted.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “counterbrace”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)