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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Brake :: Brake (v. t.) A piece of mechanism for retarding or stopping motion by friction, as of a carriage or railway car, by the pressure of rubbers against the wheels, or of clogs or ratchets against the track or roadway, or of a pivoted lever against a wheel or drum in a machine..

Breakman :: Breakman (n.) See Brakeman.

Slipper :: Slipper (n.) A kind of brake or shoe for a wagon wheel.

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

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

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..

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

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..

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

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