vbl. sb. [f. as prec. + -ING1.]
1. The action of furnishing, coupling, uniting, with brackets.
1869. Swinburne, Ess. & Stud. (1875), 214. Byron and Shelley … I protest against the bracketing of the two names.
1876. Gladstone, in Contemp. Rev., June, 20. The bracketing, in which no less than eight systems will … be presented to view.
2. Arch. A wooden framework or skeleton, consisting of wooden ribs nailed to the ceiling, joists, and battening, for the purpose of supporting a cornice, cove, or other molding.
1823. P. Nicholson, Pract. Build., 138. Cove-bracketing is the finish of the top of the faces of a room, adjacent to the cornice.
1876. Gwilt, Archit., § 2088. Thus the general form of the bracketing will be obtained.
