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

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

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

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

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..

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..

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

Brake :: Brake () of Brea.

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..

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

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

Brakeman :: Brakeman (n.) The man in charge of the winding (or hoisting) engine for a mine.

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

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

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

Brakemen :: Brakemen (pl. ) of Brakema.

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

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

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..

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