[{"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["Machinery.a supporting or checking piece in a mechanism.", "Building Trades.an tension member, as a cable, permanently or temporarily supporting a compression member, as a tower or pole, subject to a pull above its base from the opposite direction.", "a strip of leather at the back of a shoe used for reinforcement and sometimes to connect the quarters."]}, {"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["Nautical.any of various shrouds forming part of a vessel's rigging and leading aft from masts above a lower mast to the sides or stern of the vessel in order to reinforce the masts against forward pull."]}]