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Cow :: Cow (n.) A wedge, or brake, to check the motion of a machine or car; a chock..

Slipper :: Slipper (n.) A kind of brake or shoe for a wagon wheel.

Cataract :: Cataract (n.) A kind of hydraulic brake for regulating the action of pumping engines and other machines; -- sometimes called dashpot.

Brake :: Brake () imp. of Break.

Brake :: Brake (v. t.) An apparatus for testing the power of a steam engine, or other motor, by weighing the amount of friction that the motor will overcome; a friction brake..

Brake :: Brake (v. t.) A sharp bit or snaffle.

Brakeman :: Brakeman (n.) A man in charge of a brake or brakes.

Shoe :: Shoe (n.) The part of a railroad car brake which presses upon the wheel to retard its motion.

Brakeman :: Brakeman (n.) The man in charge of the winding (or hoisting) engine for a mine.

Handwheel :: Handwheel (n.) Any wheel worked by hand; esp., one the rim of which serves as the handle by which a valve, car brake, or other part is adjusted..

Brake :: Brake (v. t.) An ancient instrument of torture.

Breakman :: Breakman (n.) See Brakeman.

Brake :: Brake (v. t.) An instrument or machine to break or bruise the woody part of flax or hemp so that it may be separated from the fiber.

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

Involucre :: Involucre (n.) A continuous marginal covering of sporangia, in certain ferns, as in the common brake, or the cup-shaped processes of the filmy ferns..

Brake :: Brake (n.) A thicket; a place overgrown with shrubs and brambles, with undergrowth and ferns, or with canes..

Brake :: Brake (v. t.) A frame for confining a refractory horse while the smith is shoeing him; also, an inclosure to restrain cattle, horses, etc..

Brake :: Brake (v. t.) An extended handle by means of which a number of men can unite in working a pump, as in a fire engine..

Brake :: Brake (v. t.) A baker's kneading though.

Canebrake :: Canebrake (n.) A thicket of canes.

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