The next day they drilled holes through the posts with brace and bit.

Finally, using the brace and bit, he drills the holes for the rivets.

They holed our boats with braces and bits, then dragged you down.

The Shadow's glove was off; the miniature brace and bit was ready.

The resident drilled holes by hand, with a polished metal brace and bit.

For boring larger holes, the classic woodworker's tool has always been the brace and bit.

It is uncertain when the Brace and Bit was invented however the earliest picture found so far dates from the 15th century.

A brace or brace and bit is a hand tool used to drill holes, usually in wood.

He also helped develop surgical tools like an electric drill to replace the brace and bit device used to penetrate the skull.

"Drills for metal," Keikano shrugged, miming a hand operated brace and bit.

Philip Wooler's brace and bit won the £139 worth of Koch honing system for second prize.

Whit remarked that if we had a brace and bit, we could drill peep holes in the back of the outhouse.

Braces and bits, carpenter's hatchets, rave hooks and augers lay nearby.

Stutts ran back to the pile Of goods discarded from the fly- ing ship and returned with a large brace and bit.

There are some long-handled wrenches, some spare levers, and a couple of braces and bits.

This contained such useful items as a brace and bit, a block and tackle, a magnifying glass and a Dutch oven.

He found a wooden box and began filling it with braces and bits and musty, framed citations from the walls.

The other had contained a jemmy, cans of spray paint, wire cutters, a brace and bit, and shears.

Then it was three holes with the brace and bit, some smoothing, and some more cleaning out, and then the glue.

Bungholes were first used on wooden barrels, and were typically bored by the purchaser of the barrel using a brace and bit.

Then he exclaimed "It was that bag of tools I sent you after-the long wrenches, the pliers, and the brace and bits.

He would be puzzled by my brace and bit, a medieval invention, but being familiar with the Egyptian bow drill, he would readily infer its purpose.

An ice auger, which resembles a giant brace and bit, is probably the most efficient hand-powered ice-cutting tool, although an ice chisel runs a close second.

Brace and bit - Most of the drilling on the show is done with a brace and bit which is a hand powered drill.

The term often refers to a human-powered crank which is used to manually turn an axle, as in a bicycle crankset or a brace and bit drill.