BRAKE

Brake

A brake is a mechanical device which inhibits motion. The rest of this article is dedicated to various types of vehicular brakes.

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brake

Noun

  1. A fern; bracken.

Noun (etymology 2)

  1. A thicket, or an area overgrown with briers etc.

Noun (etymology 3)

  1. A tool used for breaking flax or hemp.
  2. A type of machine for bending sheet metal. (See .)
  3. A large, heavy harrow for breaking clods after ploughing; a drag.

Noun (etymology 4)

  1. The winch of a crossbow.
  2. The handle of a pump.
  3. 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.
  4. Something used to retard or stop some action, process etc.
  5. The act of braking, of using a brake to slow down a machine or vehicle
  6. A baker's kneading trough.
  7. A frame for confining a refractory horse while the smith is shoeing him.
  8. An enclosure to restrain cattle, horses, etc.
  9. That part of a carriage, as of a movable battery, or engine, which enables it to turn.
  10. An ancient engine of war analogous to the crossbow and ballista.
  11. 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.
  12. A cart or carriage without a body, used in breaking in horses.

Noun (etymology 5)

  1. A cage.
  2. A type of torture instrument.

Verb

  1. To bruise and crush; to knead
    ''The farmer's son brakes the flax while mother brakes the bread dough
  2. To pulverise with a harrow

Verb (etymology 2)

  1. To operate (a) brake(s).
  2. To be stopped or slowed (as if) by braking.

Verb (etymology 3)

brake



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