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

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

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..

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

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

Breakman :: Breakman (n.) See Brakeman.

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

Brake :: Brake () of Brea.

Brake :: Brake () imp. of Break.

Braky :: Braky (a.) Full of brakes; abounding with brambles, shrubs, or ferns; rough; thorny..

Brakemen :: Brakemen (pl. ) of Brakema.

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

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

Brake :: Brake (v. t.) A cart or carriage without a body, used in breaking in horses..

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

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.) 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 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..

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