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

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

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

Brakemen :: Brakemen (pl. ) of Brakema.

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

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

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..

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

Brake :: Brake () imp. of Break.

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

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..

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

Brake :: Brake (v. t.) A baker's kneading though.

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.) An extended handle by means of which a number of men can unite in working a pump, as in a fire engine..

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..

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

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

Brake :: Brake (v. t.) An ancient engine of war analogous to the crossbow and ballista.

Brake :: Brake () of Brea.

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