braced frame

braced frame
noun
: a building frame in which the timbers are heavy enough to be mortised and in which diagonal bracing is used — compare balloon frame

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Carpentry.
a building frame employing a heavy, braced framework of solid girts mortised into solid posts the full height of the frame, with studs one story high filling the interstices. Also called full frame.

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