main brace

The second was to stop you cutting the main brace.

The main braces are available in 8- or 12-foot lengths.

For example, the main braces did not tuck into the side bandings, which could cause problems.

The main braces should be positioned so the crosspieces will fit exactly between them.

They are spaced about two feet apart and snap into slots in the main braces.

Why, they didn't know the catheads from the main brace.

Now install the crosspieces between the main braces.

The main braces should be supported at four-foot intervals with wire attached to the joists.

The shorter crosspieces (available in two- or four-foot lengths) run at right angles to the main braces.

Constructed of main braced girders it carried a double rail and road track with a footpath along either side.

Wollard, that main brace is fouled, lee side!

The first detachment of aircraft were stationed during the exercise Main Brace from 13 to 25 September, before the base was completed.

The teeth have a compound tertiary vein as the main brace, which is a feature rare in the species closely related to A. spicatum.

"Stop them," Ramage bellowed at the top of his voice and, drawing his sword, ran at the man chopping into the main brace.

Only ratings marked "G" (for Grog) in the ship's books could draw rum, grog or lemonade when the main brace was spliced and no payment in lieu was available.

When the ship's way is deadened in stays and all the hands are aft at the main braces you will have a clear road to slip out and get overboard through the open quarter-deck port.

The metal grid is made up of two types of "T" braces (called "T" braces because they have a cross section of an inverted letter "T"), main braces and crosspieces.

Don't we just "splice the main brace" as Emil says,' answered Dolly, the dandy, carefully spreading a napkin over the glossy expanse of shirt-front whereon a diamond stud shone like a lone star.

Suddenly Stevens snatched the cutlass at his side and, holding it high over his shoulder, ran to the starboard main brace to try to slash through the heavy rope so that the main yard would swing round out of control.

"Mainsail haull" broke the spell, and in the noisy cries and rush over- head of the men running away with the main brace we two, down in my cabin, came together in our usual position by the bed place.

Within seconds individual fights between packetsmen and Tritons were going on all over the Arabella's deck, but before Ramage reached his man the main brace parted with a bang and the huge yard began to swing.

Jack gave the order to splice the main brace, and turning to Pullings he said, 'The painting and titivating we must leave until we are at sea, and of course she don't look pretty; but I never thought we could have done so much in the time.

Peacekeeping duty with the United States Sixth Fleet continued until 27 June, when she returned to Newport to prepare for "Operation Main Brace", a major NATO exercise in the North Sea that took place from 26 August to 12 October.

The second Emir lounges about the rigging awhile, and then slightly shaking the main brace, to see whether it will be all right with that important rope, he likewise takes up the old burden, and with a rapid "Dinner, Mr. Flask," follows after his predecessors.

It is not enough to know what Charlie Noble does for a living, or what makes the wildcat wild, or which BatDiv failed to splice the main brace and why-nor to learn matrix algebra and navigation and ballistics and aerodynamics and nuclear engineering.