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.
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