Vertical or horizontal means of bracing walls by columns, pilasters, cross walls, beams, floors, roofs, etc.
Means whereby walls are braced either vertically or horizontally by columns, pilasters, cross walls, beams, floors, roofs, etc.
Means whereby walls are braced either vertically or horizontally by buttresses or crosswalls or by floor or roof constructions. In brick veneer construction lateral support is provided by the loadbearing frame to which the brickwork is connected, usually with material ties.
A structural support, designed to resist a load or force, applied to the side of a structure, such as by bracing, etc.
The means of bracing structural members in the horizontal span by columns, buttresses, pilasters or cross walls, or in the vertical span by beams, floors, foundations, or roofs.