bracer
b ray ser
- n a protective covering for the wrist or arm that is used in archery and fencing and other sports
- n a tonic or restorative (especially a drink of liquor)
- On a chilly fall day at Shannon Airport five years ago, San Francisco Chronicle Columnist Stan ("Postcards") Delaplane stepped up to a bar for a bracer.
- At week's end Turkey's Foreign Minister Skr Saracoglu made a speech indicating that, even in Cairo, Anthony Eden was a bracer.
- All day on his 73rd birthday Steelman Charles Michael Schwab, working at his office on lower Broadway, refused either to see newshawks or to issue his annual bracer.