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