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

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

Brake :: Brake () of Brea.

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

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 cart or carriage without a body, used in breaking in horses..

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..

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Convoy :: Convoy (n.) A drag or brake applied to the wheels of a carriage, to check their velocity in going down a hill..

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

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

Brake :: Brake (n.) A fern of the genus Pteris, esp. the P. aquilina, common in almost all countries. It has solitary stems dividing into three principal branches. Less properly: Any fern..

Bracken :: Bracken (n.) A brake or fern.

Brake :: Brake (v. t.) A large, heavy harrow for breaking clods after plowing; a drag..

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

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