1. brake - Noun
2. brake - Verb
4. Brake - Proper noun
imp. of Break.
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.
A thicket; a place overgrown with shrubs and brambles, with undergrowth and ferns, or with canes.
An instrument or machine to break or bruise the woody part of flax or hemp so that it may be separated from the fiber.
An extended handle by means of which a number of men can unite in working a pump, as in a fire engine.
A baker's kneading though.
A sharp bit or snaffle.
A frame for confining a refractory horse while the smith is shoeing him; also, an inclosure to restrain cattle, horses, etc.
That part of a carriage, as of a movable battery, or engine, which enables it to turn.
An ancient engine of war analogous to the crossbow and ballista.
A large, heavy harrow for breaking clods after plowing; a drag.
A piece of mechanism for retarding or stopping motion by friction, as of a carriage or railway car, by the pressure of rubbers against the wheels, or of clogs or ratchets against the track or roadway, or of a pivoted lever against a wheel or drum in a machine.
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.
A cart or carriage without a body, used in breaking in horses.
An ancient instrument of torture.
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Source: Webster's dictionaryThe brutal reality about aging is that it has only an accelerator pedal. We have yet to discover whether a brake exists for people. Dan Buettner
Life is a egg you have to be patient and carefull with it or it will brake. Langston Hughes
The main fuel to speed the world's progress is our stock of knowledge, and the brake is our lack of imagination. Julian Simon
Menny people spend their time trieing tew find the hole whare sin got into this world--if two men brake through the ice into a mill pond, they had better hunt for sum good hole tew git out, rather than git into a long argument about the hole they cum tew fall in. Josh Billings
I hooked up my accelerator pedal in my car to my brake lights. I hit the gas, people behind me stop, and I'm gone. Steven Wright
He was the Word, that spake it: He took the bread and brake it; And what that Word did make it, I do believe and take it. John Donne