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brace-and-bit

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1567, OED Evaluation: N/A

A carpenter's tool, having a crank handle, and a socket or pad to hold a ‘bit’ for boring.

ExampleMeaning
Well when Lewis helped down there when- when the first- yeah, they used um- they would drill a hole in the ah maple tree. Now, they didn't have the electric drills, they had a hand drill. Yeah brace-and-bit. And a spile would be tapped in and then a- a pale hung on it. And they went around with um a hor-- a big drums on a horse was on a- sleigh behind the horse-
A carpenter's tool, having a crank handle, and a socket or pad to hold a ‘bit’ for boring.
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Interviewer: Do you remember making maple syrup? Speaker: Oh I remember that very well because it- and it was quite a task. We tapped something like three-hundred trees which was huge for the times because my dad and a hired man tapped all those trees by hand with a brace-and-bit and you put the spile in- Interviewer: Did you help them? Speaker: What- what my brother and I were d-- I have a brother th-- had a brother that was a- a year and a half younger, we would ah, drive the team of horses.
A carpenter's tool, having a crank handle, and a socket or pad to hold a ‘bit’ for boring.