·noun The cheek or side of an ordnance carriage.
II. Bracket ·noun A shot, crooked timber, resembling a knee, used as a support.
III. Bracket ·add. ·vt To shoot so as to establish a bracket for (an object).
IV. Bracket ·vt To place within brackets; to connect by brackets; to furnish with brackets.
V. Bracket ·noun A gas fixture or lamp holder projecting from the face of a wall, column, or the like.
VI. Bracket ·noun A piece or combination of pieces, usually triangular in general shape, projecting from, or fastened to, a wall, or other surface, to support heavy bodies or to strengthen angles.
VII. Bracket ·noun An architectural member, plain or ornamental, projecting from a wall or pier, to support weight falling outside of the same; also, a decorative feature seeming to discharge such an Office.
VIII. Bracket ·noun One of two characters [], used to inclose a reference, explanation, or note, or a part to be excluded from a sentence, to indicate an interpolation, to rectify a mistake, or to supply an omission, and for certain other purposes;
— called also crotchet.
IX. Bracket ·add. ·noun A figure determined by firing a projectile beyond a target and another short of it, as a basis for ascertaining the proper elevation of the piece;
— only used in the phrase, to establish a bracket. After the bracket is established shots are fired with intermediate elevations until the exact range is obtained. In the United States navy it is called fork.