Crossword-Solution: BRACEBIT 8 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

You have got the worst end of it in any kind of a story.” “Well, I suppose I must be clearing out now,” said the burglar, taking up his lantern and bracebit.

With part of the money given him by the benevolent man, he bought some housebreaking implements—a thin putty knife to force open the spring fastening of the window, a bracebit to cut an arm-hole in the shutters if they should happen to be closed and fastened; and lastly, a leaden-headed neddy or life-preserver with which to smash the skull of anyone who might oppose or attempt to capture him.