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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 () imp. of Break.

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..

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

Break :: Break (v. t.) A device for checking motion, or for measuring friction. See Brake, n. 9 & 10..

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

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

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.

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

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 () of Brea.

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

Air Brake :: Air brake () A railway brake operated by condensed air.

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

Brake :: Brake (v. t.) That part of a carriage, as of a movable battery, or engine, which enables it to turn..

Barleybrake :: Barleybrake (n.) Alt. of Barleybrea.

Brakemen :: Brakemen (pl. ) of Brakema.

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