weather-brace

The men on watch hesitated a moment and then came crowding aft and began to cast off the weather-brace from its belaying-pin.

Mr. Trunnell, Mate of the Ship "Pirate"

The young girl had, meantime, made the lee fore-brace fast, and had then gone over to windward and cast off the running part of the weather-brace, which she threw overboard.

For Treasure Bound Harry Collingwood 1886

A weather-brace may go unexpectedly; a topsail-sheet part; an awkward wave come on board.

From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life 1877

But it was necessary to have the crew ready to work together, for the seaman who had hauled on the weather-brace in tacking was now an officer, and the stations of many were new and strange to them.

Down the Rhine Young America in Germany Oliver Optic 1859

Accordingly, the clew-lines, down-haul-tackle, and weather-brace being manned, the halliards were let go, the weather-brace hauled in, the weather-sheet started and clewed up; then the bowline and lee-sheets being let go, the sail caught aback, and the men springing on the yard, grasped it in their arms as they hung over it.

Old Jack William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

The sheet and weather-brace they now stand by, [29]

The Poetical Works of Beattie, Blair, and Falconer With Lives, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes George Gilfillan 1845

Our men were in such a consternation, that not a man on board the ship had presence of mind to apply to the proper duty of a sailor, except friend William; and had he not run very nimbly, and with a composure that I am sure I was not master of, to let go the fore-sheet, set in the weather-brace of the fore-yard, and haul down the top-sails, we had certainly brought all our masts by the board, and perhaps have been overwhelmed in the sea.

The Life, Adventures & Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton Daniel Defoe 1696