unbrace
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“But when you start opening things up, start demo-ing a little slab, you might unbrace a column, and that column has temporary shoring, or perhaps it’s only temporary braced and that’s less stable.”
From Slate ● Mar. 24, 2020
Together all set their sheets, and all at once slacken their canvas to left and again to right; together they brace and unbrace the yard-arms aloft; prosperous gales waft the fleet along.
From The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil
Edwin, sunk in weariness, said little in opposition; and having suffered Monteith to take away his sword and to unbrace his plated vest, dropped at once on the straw in a profound sleep.
From The Scottish Chiefs by Jane Porter
Terms of a Carver: Slice brawn, spoil a hen, unbrace a mallard, untache a curlew, border a pasty, thigh small birds, splat a pike, fin a chub, barb a lobster.
From Early English Meals and Manners by Frederick James Furnivall
How eager would her tender hands unbrace The ponderous armour from my war-worn limbs, And pluck the helmet which oppos'd her kiss!
From Percy A Tragedy by Hannah More
Retrofitting soft-story homes costs much more than fixing an unbraced “cripple wall”: $14,000 to $28,000.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2023
One prior case with possible legal parallels involves the 2013 collapse in Philadelphia of an unbraced wall of a building that was being demolished.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 5, 2021
Benscop used an excavator on the site that morning despite rules that an unbraced wall must be taken down by hand.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 25, 2017
But wire-bracing, gears, cams, valves, engine cowling, various parts of unbraced sheet metal in airplane construction will, by their vibration, for some time keep planes from becoming as silent as mod ern automobiles.
From Time Magazine Archive
Standing by itself, unbraced, Ferris’s wheel looked dangerously fragile.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
Though swift in her racing, Like the kinsfolk before her, No heart-burst, unbracing Her strength, rushes o'er her.
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Charles Rogers
Judge Custis remarked, in spite of his fagged face, for good resolution and yesterday's unbracing had left him somewhat limp and haggard still.
From The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times by George Alfred Townsend
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