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bracer

[ US /ˈbɹeɪsɝ/ ]
[ UK /bɹˈe‍ɪsɐ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a tonic or restorative (especially a drink of liquor)
  2. a protective covering for the wrist or arm that is used in archery and fencing and other sports

How To Use bracer In A Sentence

  • INA amendments in 1965 established a family reunification system, which enabled braceros to sponsor (or withhold or withdraw sponsorship of) immediate family members.
  • The edge of his gauntlets show beneath the edge of his shirtsleeves, flashing as he walks in time with the bracers that cling to his shins and over his feet.
  • Her spiked bracers glint in the dim torchlight and her silver chaukrum reflect the light onto the walls.
  • There is a statute and common law offense known as embracery, which is defined to consist "in such practices as lead to affect the administration of justice, _improperly working upon the minds of jurors_. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II
  • He was only five paces away from Lyenda who had then pulled on tabs for her drawing arms and had put on the arm bracers.
  • Careful analyses by boards of health and government chemists of a great number of advertised medicines have shown that three-fourths of the so-called tonics and "bitters" and "bracers" of all sorts contain alcohol -- some of them in such large amounts as to be stronger and more intoxicating than whiskey. A Handbook of Health
  • Former braceros are suing the Mexican Government for billions of dollars.
  • The braceros, from the Spanish word for arm, were agricultural workers sent by Mexico to the United States between 1940 and 1960.
  • For them, sanctions have failed - they fear a new bracero program and don't have the resources to take advantage of one.
  • While H - 1B workers are paid considerably more than the minimum wage, ‘it still is like the old bracero program,’ she asserts.
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