brace and bit

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   a drill consisting of a bit and a brace to hold and turn it

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Questions about brace and bit

What does brace and bit mean?

brace and bit means "a drill consisting of a bit and a brace to hold and turn it".

Is brace and bit a common word?

brace and bit is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.