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

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

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

Rake :: Rake (n.) The inclination of anything from a perpendicular direction; as, the rake of a roof, a staircase, etc..

Drakestone :: Drakestone (n.) A flat stone so thrown along the surface of water as to skip from point to point before it sinks; also, the sport of so throwing stones; -- sometimes called ducks and drakes..

Roue :: Roue (n.) One devoted to a life of sensual pleasure; a debauchee; a rake.

Firedrake :: Firedrake (n.) A worker at a furnace or fire.

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

Rake :: Rake (v. i.) To pass with violence or rapidity; to scrape along.

Strain :: Straik (n.) A strake.

Crakeberry :: Crakeberry (n.) See Crowberry.

Mandragora :: Mandragora (n.) A genus of plants; the mandrake. See Mandrake, 1..

Rake :: Rake (v. t.) To search through; to scour; to ransack.

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..

Rake :: Rake (v. i.) To use a rake, as for searching or for collecting; to scrape; to search minutely..

Paroquet :: Paroquet (n.) Same as Parrakeet.

Skitty :: Skitty (n.) A rail; as, the water rail (called also skitty cock, and skitty coot); the spotted crake (Porzana maruetta), and the moor hen..

Corncrake :: Corncrake (n.) A bird (Crex crex or C. pratensis) which frequents grain fields; the European crake or land rail; -- called also corn bird.

Water Crake :: Water crake () The spotted crake (Porzana maruetta). See Illust. of Crake.

Parrot :: Parrot (n.) Any species of Psittacus, Chrysotis, Pionus, and other genera of the family Psittacidae, as distinguished from the parrakeets, macaws, and lories. They have a short rounded or even tail, and often a naked space on the cheeks. The gray parrot, or jako (P. erithacus) of Africa (see Jako), and the species of Amazon, or green, parrots (Chrysotis) of America, are examples. Many species, as cage birds, readily learn to imitate sounds, and to repeat words and phrases..

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