brace up

VERB
  1. make secure underneath
    undergird the ship
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How To Use brace up In A Sentence

  • As she comes to on the other side, ease the helm, trim down the foresheet, brace up and haul out.
  • But, I say, I do know something of yachting, and that isn't the way to brace up the marling-spike to the fokesell yard with the main jibboom three points in a wind with some East in it! Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, July 4, 1891
  • Brace up! You haven't been swamped yet. You still have a chance to triumph over him.
  • Brace up, my hearty," said Handy, removing the briarwood from his lips. A Pirate of Parts
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