BRAKE
\bɹˈe͡ɪk], \bɹˈeɪk], \b_ɹ_ˈeɪ_k]\
Definitions of BRAKE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan
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a restraint used to slow or stop a vehicle
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an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant
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any of various ferns of the genus Pteris having pinnately compound leaves and including several popular houseplants
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cause to stop by applying the brakes; "brake the car before you go into a curve"
By Princeton University
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large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan
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a restraint used to slow or stop a vehicle
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an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant
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any of various ferns of the genus Pteris having pinnately compound leaves and including several popular houseplants
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cause to stop by applying the brakes
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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imp. of Break.
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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.
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A thicket; a place overgrown with shrubs and brambles, with undergrowth and ferns, or with canes.
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An instrument or machine to break or bruise the woody part of flax or hemp so that it may be separated from the fiber.
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An extended handle by means of which a number of men can unite in working a pump, as in a fire engine.
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A baker's kneading though.
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A sharp bit or snaffle.
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A frame for confining a refractory horse while the smith is shoeing him; also, an inclosure to restrain cattle, horses, etc.
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That part of a carriage, as of a movable battery, or engine, which enables it to turn.
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A large, heavy harrow for breaking clods after plowing; a drag.
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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.
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A cart or carriage without a body, used in breaking in horses.
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An ancient instrument of torture.
By Oddity Software
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imp. of Break.
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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.
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A thicket; a place overgrown with shrubs and brambles, with undergrowth and ferns, or with canes.
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An instrument or machine to break or bruise the woody part of flax or hemp so that it may be separated from the fiber.
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An extended handle by means of which a number of men can unite in working a pump, as in a fire engine.
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A baker's kneading though.
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A sharp bit or snaffle.
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A frame for confining a refractory horse while the smith is shoeing him; also, an inclosure to restrain cattle, horses, etc.
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That part of a carriage, as of a movable battery, or engine, which enables it to turn.
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A large, heavy harrow for breaking clods after plowing; a drag.
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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.
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A cart or carriage without a body, used in breaking in horses.
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An ancient instrument of torture.
By Noah Webster.
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A kind of small wagon with high wheels; a device for checking, by friction, the motion of a vehicle or machine, as a bicycle; a place overgrown with shrubs and brambles; the common fern.
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To stop by using a brake.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Fern.
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A fern: a place overgrown with ferns or briers: a thicket.
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An instrument to break flax or hemp: a carriage for breaking-in horses: a bit for horses: a contrivance for retarding the motion of a wheel.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To apply a brake to; reduce the speed of; bruise, as flax.
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To act as brakeman.
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Imp. of BREAK, v.
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A device for retarding motion, as of a wheel.
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A harrow.
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An implement for separating the fiber of flax, hemp, etc.
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A variety of fern; bracken.
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A thicket.
By James Champlin Fernald
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n. [Latin, German] A fern of different genera;—a place overgrown with ferns or shrubs; a thicket.
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n. An instrument to break flax or hemp;—the handle by which a pump or fire-engine is worked;—an inclosure for horses;—an instrument to hold them while being shod;—a curricle to train them;—a harrow for breaking clods;—the mechanism by which an engine is made to alter, turn, or stop;—a piece of wood pressed upon the circumference of a wheel to retard or stop its motion.
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