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- Bracket - n. - An architectural member, plain or ornamental, projecting from a wall or pier, to support weight falling outside of the same; also, a decorative feature seeming to discharge such an office.
- Bracket - n. - A piece or combination of pieces, usually triangular in general shape, projecting from, or fastened to, a wall, or other surface, to support heavy bodies or to strengthen angles.
- Bracket - n. - A shot, crooked timber, resembling a knee, used as a support.
- Bracket - n. - The cheek or side of an ordnance carriage.
- Bracket - n. - One of two characters [], used to inclose a reference, explanation, or note, or a part to be excluded from a sentence, to indicate an interpolation, to rectify a mistake, or to supply an omission, and for certain other purposes; -- called also crotchet.
- Bracket - n. - A gas fixture or lamp holder projecting from the face of a wall, column, or the like.
- Bracket - v. t. - To place within brackets; to connect by brackets; to furnish with brackets.
- Bracketed - imp. & p. p. - of Bracket
- Bracketing - p. pr. & vb. n. - of Bracket
- Bracketing - n. - A series or group of brackets; brackets, collectively.
- Crane - n. - A forked post or projecting bracket to support spars, etc., -- generally used in pairs. See Crotch, 2.
- Corbel - n. - A bracket supporting a superincumbent object, or receiving the spring of an arch. Corbels were employed largely in Gothic architecture.
- Console - n. - A bracket whose projection is not more than half its height.
- Modillion - n. - The enriched block or horizontal bracket generally found under the cornice of the Corinthian and Composite entablature, and sometimes, less ornamented, in the Ionic and other orders; -- so called because of its arrangement at regulated distances.
- Ancone - n. - A bracket supporting a cornice; a console.
- Cantalever - n. - A bracket to support a balcony, a cornice, or the like.