Anagrams of: BARNDANCE

• positioned so as to be ready for confrontation or danger

• held up by braces or buttresses

• a performer who dances professionally

• a person who participates in a social gathering arranged for dancing (as a ball)

• forbidden by law

• 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

• recorded for broadcast

• sealed in a can or jar

• a covered passageway with shops and stalls on either side

• a structure composed of a series of arches supported by columns

• 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)