DCHP-1 Online
bras [ < F] Obs. 
n. a long narrow bay or arm (now only in place-names, as Bras d'Or, N.S.).
- 1817 A land of eight perches and thirteen feet in front . . . beginning at the River St. Lawrence and running to the bras St. Nicholas, to the south of which bras is the land of Jacques Kirouh.
- 1817 A land of eight perches and thirteen feet in front . . . beginning at the River St. Lawrence and running to the bras St. Nicholas, to the south of which bras is the land of Jacques Kirouh.