Anagrams of: BOATRACE

• an athlete who performs acts requiring skill and agility and coordination

• arboreal civet of Asia having a long prehensile tail and shaggy black hair

• discharge bad feelings or tension through verbalization

• venomous Asiatic and African elapid snakes that can expand the skin of the neck into a hood

• a support that steadies or strengthens something else

• two items of the same kind

• a set of two similar things considered as a unit

• either of two punctuation marks ({ or }) used to enclose textual material

• a rope on a square-rigged ship that is used to swing a yard about and secure it

• elastic straps that hold trousers up

• an appliance that corrects dental irregularities

• a carpenter's tool having a crank handle for turning and a socket to hold a bit for boring

• a structural member used to stiffen a framework

• prepare (oneself), often but not necessarily for something unpleasant or difficult

• support or hold steady and make steadfast, with or as if with a brace

• support by bracing

• cause to be alert and energetic

• a heavy wooden pole (such as the trunk of a young fir) that is tossed as a test of strength (in the Highlands of northern Scotland)

• long pod containing small beans and sweetish edible pulp; used as animal feed and source of a chocolate substitute

• evergreen Mediterranean tree with edible pods; the biblical carob

• powder from the ground seeds and pods of the carob tree; used as a chocolate substitute

• sour or bitter in taste

• harsh or corrosive in tone