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Brake :: Brake (v. t.) A cart or carriage without a body, used in breaking in horses..

Brake :: Brake (v. t.) An ancient engine of war analogous to the crossbow and ballista.

Shank :: Shank (v.) That part of a hoe, rake, knife, or the like, by which it is secured to a handle..

Skeldrake :: Skeldrake (n.) Alt. of Skieldrak.

Rake :: Rake (v. t.) To pass a rake over; to scrape or scratch with a rake for the purpose of collecting and clearing off something, or for stirring up the soil; as, to rake a lawn; to rake a flower bed..

Random :: Random (n.) The direction of a rake-vein.

Windrow :: Windrow (n.) A row or line of hay raked together for the purpose of being rolled into cocks or heaps.

Rakehell :: Rakehell (n.) A lewd, dissolute fellow; a debauchee; a rake..

Hayrake :: Hayrake (n.) A rake for collecting hay; especially, a large rake drawn by a horse or horses..

Rake :: Rake (n.) A loose, disorderly, vicious man; a person addicted to lewdness and other scandalous vices; a debauchee; a roue..

Drake :: Drake (n.) The male of the duck kind.

Rake :: Rake (v. t.) To enfilade; to fire in a direction with the length of; in naval engagements, to cannonade, as a ship, on the stern or head so that the balls range the whole length of the deck..

Rake :: Rake (n.) An implement consisting of a headpiece having teeth, and a long handle at right angles to it, -- used for collecting hay, or other light things which are spread over a large surface, or for breaking and smoothing the earth..

Racle :: Racle (a.) See Rakel.

Earthdrake :: Earthdrake (n.) A mythical monster of the early Anglo-Saxon literature; a dragon.

Streak :: Streak (n.) A strake.

Rake :: Rake (v. i.) To use a rake, as for searching or for collecting; to scrape; to search minutely..

Parakeet :: Parakeet (n.) Any one of numerous species of small parrots having a graduated tail, which is frequently very long; -- called also paroquet and paraquet..

Corncrake :: Corncrake (n.) A bird (Crex crex or C. pratensis) which frequents grain fields; the European crake or land rail; -- called also corn bird.

Brake :: Brake (v. t.) A piece of mechanism for retarding or stopping motion by friction, as of a carriage or railway car, by the pressure of rubbers against the wheels, or of clogs or ratchets against the track or roadway, or of a pivoted lever against a wheel or drum in a machine..

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