noun the cheek or side of an ordnance carriage.
2. bracket ·noun a shot, crooked timber, resembling a knee, used as a support.
3. bracket ·add. ·vt to shoot so as to establish a bracket for (an object).
4. bracket ·vt to place within brackets; to connect by brackets; to furnish with brackets.
5. bracket ·noun a gas fixture or lamp holder projecting from the face of a wall, column, or the like.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. 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.