n. A supporting piece or combination of pieces of moderate projection, generally springing from a vertical surface.n. A gas-pipe with a burner, and often a support for a shade or globe, projecting from a wall or pillar.n. In gunnery, the cheek of a mortar-carriage, made of strong planking.n. One of two marks [ ], formerly called crotchets, used to inclose a note, reference, explanation, or the like, and thus separate it from the context; sometimes, also, one of a pair of braces { } similarly used, or a single brace { used to couple two or more lines or names.n. The position of being classed or bracketed with another or others.n. A name given to a head-dress of the fourteenth century.n. In mining, the platform over the mouth of a shaft.To furnish with or support by a bracket or brackets; in writing and printing, to place within brackets.To place on or within the same bracket or brackets; join or mention together as coequal or correlative; connect by or as if by a printers' brace: as, the names of Smith and Jones are bracketed, or bracketed together, as candidates.n. Same as bragget.Brackish; salt; briny: as, “living upon beef and brack water.”n. In carriages, a heavy standard placed at an incline at the front end of the boot of a coach as a support for the foot-board.n. A stiffening-rib on a casting.n. In wood ship-building, a short crooked timber, resembling a knee, for support or ornament.n. In iron ship-building, a piece of plate of a triangular shape uniting, at their junction, two parts which meet at an angle to strengthen the joint against flexure.In ship-building, to unite by a bracket.