Definition of brake

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

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Caboose :: Caboose (n.) A car used on freight or construction trains for brakemen, workmen, etc.; a tool car..
Air Brake :: Air brake () A railway brake operated by condensed air.
Brake :: Brake () of Brea.
Breakman :: Breakman (n.) See Brakeman.
Slipper :: Slipper (n.) A kind of brake or shoe for a wagon wheel.
Brake :: Brake (v. t.) A cart or carriage without a body, used in breaking in horses..
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.
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..
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 engine of war analogous to the crossbow and ballista.
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..
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..
Break :: Break (v. t.) A device for checking motion, or for measuring friction. See Brake, n. 9 & 10..
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 (n.) A thicket; a place overgrown with shrubs and brambles, with undergrowth and ferns, or with canes..
Bracken :: Bracken (n.) A brake or fern.
Brake :: Brake (v. t.) A sharp bit or snaffle.
Braky :: Braky (a.) Full of brakes; abounding with brambles, shrubs, or ferns; rough; thorny..
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