They sat on the cross brace, ten feet above the cold, dark water.

It supports the cross braces, which will be described next week.

A less common style uses metal cross braces instead of wood.

The wings had a support bar and cross bracing wires.

It had the hides way up, jammed over the cross braces.

When in place, cross braces form the shape of an X and provide strong support for the end frames.

For a window seat up to about 36 inches long at the rear, only two cross braces are needed.

This is typically done by the addition of cross braces or new structural walls.

He found a cross brace on the left sidewall.

The car was built on a heavy steel chassis with a substantial cross brace.

Motorcycles sold in America had high handlebars with a cross brace.

He took the wooden cross brace from one end of his rickety cot.

Then attach one bracket directly to the cross brace with wood screws.

The building is uniquely built, having been built by using the cross bracing system.

The cross braces are secured with black iron crosses.

Another way in which stretcher bars can be strengthened is by having a cross brace inserted.

He can leave - this time - when that cross brace is welded and the brackets are set.

The previous building required steel cross bracing on the upper floors to minimize movement.

An alternate name for the cross bracing which allows a rower to secure his/her feet.

Cross bracing can increase a building's capability to withstand seismic forces from an earthquake.

The frame was rigidly cross braced with the deep side members dropped in order to give a low body mounting.

Install shorter cross braces between the rear ledger and the rail.

Therefore three sets of cross braces were added between the legs, attached with pin joints.

The horizontal and/or cross bracing are used to connect two or more columns together.

The common uses for cross bracing includes bridge (side) supports, along with structural foundations.

He crouched beneath the table, his legs on each side of a cross-brace near the floor.

Swiftly but with care he shoved the live end of the power cable toward the cross-brace and finally made contact.

So Billy stood up again, clung to the cross-brace.

It forms a cross-brace across the chest.

The retractable does feature an underbody cross-brace not included in the softtop.

She made out Sammy Sal then, standing up there on a dark carbon cross-brace, his arm around an upright.

Then he inched, still hanging upside-down, back along the support beam until he met the cross-brace.

Pucky climbed onto a twisted cross-brace and in spite of his suit's cooling system he could feel how hot it had become.

To Xiong's surprise, the hexagon was only an empty frame with what appeared to be a handle attached to its central cross-brace.

Yarrl wipes his forehead and closes the firebox door, slumping against a cross-brace.

If Lauer were to grip the tube just once in order to brace himself... There was a metal cross-brace which held the vent to the wall.

The outer slide also has a cross-brace, which is held by the player's (generally right) hand and used to move the outer slide in and out as needed.

He smiled to himself as he watched one of the day's catch sizzling on a stick propped above the campfire on a cross-brace made of tree branches.

It had a small-capacity painted fuel tank, fork boots, 19-inch front and rear wheels, coarser-tread tires (called universals), a taller handlebar with cross-brace, and abbreviated fenders.

The town's name most probably comes from an "A-gate" - a wooden gate with an "A"-shaped cross-brace, but is sometimes claimed to be named for agate found in the area.

And Billy let himself down oh so gradually now, hanging onto the diagonal cross-brace in the comer in order to make himself seem nearly weightless to those he was joining on the floor.

'We have you on a giant guitar; you lie on the neck, and it has a sort of cross-brace ... no, there are two ordinary sized guitars forming the cross-piece of the cross.

The MID1 B-box coordinates two zinc ions and adopts a beta/beta/alpha cross-brace structure similar to that of ZZ, PHD, RING and FYVE zinc fingers.

On reaching the corner of the building, he switched back to the next diagonal cross-brace, angling down in the opposite direction, remaining on the north side of the building, where fortunately he was shadowed from the day's last traces of sunlight.

Incredibly, after falling on to his knee the card had fluttered down and caught the air in such a way as to swoop suddenly against the drawers in the right-hand pedestal of the desk, slotting neatly through the thin crack between the top of the lowest drawer and the cross-brace above it - and disappearing.

Body-on-frame styles usually included an entire X-brace within the conventional ladder frame.

The foldable X-brace allows for storage and transport and allows the seat width to be adjustable.

The Laguna Seca model loses its rear seats, which are replaced by a cross-car X-brace to increase structural rigidity approximately 10%.

Fifteen groups of piles support a continuous lattice girder, each set comprising four piles screwed into the river bed at an angle with an X-brace between each adjacent pair.

This allows Babicz to use a lighter form of bracing on the top other than the rigid X-brace which can impede the vibration of the top often dampening the sound of the guitar.