| brake | |
| 1. n. A fern; bracken. | |
| 2. n. A thicket, or an area overgrown with briers etc. | |
| 3. n. A tool used for breaking flax or hemp. | |
| 4. n. A type of machine for bending sheet metal. (See wikipedia.) | |
| 5. n. A large, heavy harrow for breaking clods after ploughing; a drag. | |
| 6. v. To bruise and crush; to knead | |
| The farmer's son brakes the flax while mother brakes the bread dough | |
| 7. v. To pulverise with a harrow | |
| 8. n. (military) An ancient engine of war analogous to the crossbow and ballista. | |
| 9. n. (obsolete) The winch of a crossbow. | |
| 10. n. (chiefly nautical) The handle of a pump. | |
| 11. n. A device used to slow or stop the motion of a wheel, or of a vehicle, by friction; also, the controls or apparatus used to engage such a mechanism such as the pedal in a car. | |
| 12. n. The act of braking, of using a brake to slow down a machine or vehicle | |
| 13. n. (engineering) 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 fr | |
| 14. n. (figuratively) Something used to retard or stop some action, process etc. | |
| 15. n. A baker's kneading trough. | |
| 16. n. A device used to confine or prevent the motion of an animal. | |
| 17. n. A frame for confining a refractory horse while the smith is shoeing him. | |
| 18. n. An enclosure to restrain cattle, horses, etc. | |
| 19. n. A cart or carriage without a body, used in breaking in horses.W | |
| 20. n. A carriage for transporting shooting parties and their equipment.W | |
| 21. n. That part of a carriage, as of a movable battery, or engine, which enables it to turn. | |
| 22. v. (intransitive) To operate (a) brake(s). | |
| 23. v. (intransitive) To be stopped or slowed (as if) by braking. | |
| 24. n. (obsolete) A cage. | |
| 25. n. (now historical) A type of torture instrument. | |
| 26. v. (archaic) simple past tense of break | |
