"thoroughbrace" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1858, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Deacon's Masterpiece (poem):",
          "text": "Spring, tire, axle, and linchpin too,\nSteel of the finest, bright and blue;\nThoroughbrace bison-skin, thick and wide;\nBoot, top, dasher, from tough old hide\nFound in the pit when the tanner died.",
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          "ref": "1862, Richard Francis Burton, The City of the Saints, Chapter 1:",
          "text": "The wagon-bed is supported by iron bands or perpendiculars abutting upon wooden rockers, which rest on strong leather thoroughbraces: these are found to break the jolt better than the best steel springs, which, moreover, when injured, can not readily be repaired.",
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          "ref": "1870–1871 (date written), Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter III, in Roughing It, Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company [et al.], published 1872, →OCLC, page 30:",
          "text": "\"Why, it happened by trying to make one coach carry three days' mail—that's how it happened,\" said he. \"And right here is the very direction which is wrote on all the newspaper-bags which was to be put out for the Injuns for to keep 'em quiet. It's most uncommon lucky, becuz it's so nation dark I should 'a' gone by unbeknowns if that air thoroughbrace hadn't broke.\"",
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        "A leather strap supporting the body of a coach or wagon, attached to springs or serving as a spring itself."
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        "(dated or historical) A leather strap supporting the body of a coach or wagon, attached to springs or serving as a spring itself."
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          "text": "Spring, tire, axle, and linchpin too,\nSteel of the finest, bright and blue;\nThoroughbrace bison-skin, thick and wide;\nBoot, top, dasher, from tough old hide\nFound in the pit when the tanner died.",
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