Brake | Meaning of brake

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brake (noun)
A fern; bracken.

brake (noun)
A thicket, or an area overgrown with briers etc.

brake (noun)
A tool used for breaking flax or hemp.

brake (noun)
A type of machine for bending sheet metal. (See wikipedia.)

brake (noun)
A large, heavy harrow for breaking clods after ploughing; a drag.

brake (verb)
To bruise and crush; to knead.
The farmer's son brakes the flax while mother brakes the bread dough.

brake (verb)
To pulverise with a harrow.

brake (noun)
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.

brake (noun)
A baker's kneading trough.

brake (noun)
A device used to confine or prevent the motion of an animal.

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

brake (verb)
To operate (a) brake(s).

brake (verb)
To be stopped or slowed (as if) by braking.

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January 24, 2019

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