Definition of brake

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

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Convoy :: Convoy (n.) A drag or brake applied to the wheels of a carriage, to check their velocity in going down a hill..
Cataract :: Cataract (n.) A kind of hydraulic brake for regulating the action of pumping engines and other machines; -- sometimes called dashpot.
Braky :: Braky (a.) Full of brakes; abounding with brambles, shrubs, or ferns; rough; thorny..
Bracken :: Bracken (n.) A brake or fern.
Slipper :: Slipper (n.) A kind of brake or shoe for a wagon wheel.
Brake :: Brake (n.) A thicket; a place overgrown with shrubs and brambles, with undergrowth and ferns, or with canes..
Brakeman :: Brakeman (n.) The man in charge of the winding (or hoisting) engine for a mine.
Brake :: Brake () of Brea.
Brakemen :: Brakemen (pl. ) of Brakema.
Brake :: Brake (v. t.) A large, heavy harrow for breaking clods after plowing; a drag..
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..
Caboose :: Caboose (n.) A car used on freight or construction trains for brakemen, workmen, etc.; a tool car..
Brakeman :: Brakeman (n.) A man in charge of a brake or brakes.
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..
Break :: Break (v. t.) A device for checking motion, or for measuring friction. See Brake, n. 9 & 10..
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.
Barleybrake :: Barleybrake (n.) Alt. of Barleybrea.
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..
Air Brake :: Air brake () A railway brake operated by condensed air.
Breakman :: Breakman (n.) See Brakeman.
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