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

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

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..

Gripe :: Gripe (n.) A device for grasping or holding anything; a brake to stop a wheel.

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..

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 () imp. of Break.

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

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

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

Brake :: Brake () of Brea.

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..

Caboose :: Caboose (n.) A car used on freight or construction trains for brakemen, workmen, etc.; a tool car..

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

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

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..

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

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

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

Brakemen :: Brakemen (pl. ) of Brakema.

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