- a brace or an arrangement of braces fixed between floor or roof joists to keep them in place.
- one or more timber struts fixed between floor or roof joists to stiffen the construction and distribute the loads
- a technique for climbing a wide chimney by pressing left hand and foot against one side of it and right hand and foot against the other side
- an illegal move in which a player leans down and forward onto the body of a prone player in a ruck, thereby preventing opposing players from winning the ball by fair rucking
