a brake

Definition of a brake in English English dictionary
brake: A specific torture instrument
brake: A type of machine for bending sheet metal. (See wikipedia.)
brake: A canebreak
brake: To be stopped or slowed (as if) by braking
brake: A fern type, bracken
brake: A four-wheeled carriage type
brake: Simple past tense and past participle of break
And all the people brake off the golden earrings.
brake: To pulverise with a harrow
brake: To operate (a) brake(s)
brake: The handle, manned by up to six men, by which a ship's pump was worked
brake: A device used to slow or stop a vehicle, by friction; often installed on the wheels, then often in the plural
brake: Something that slows or stops an action
brake: To bruise and crush; to knead
The farmer's son brake the flax while mother brakes the bread dough.
brake: {n} a thicket of brambles or shrubs, instrument for dressing flax, kneadingtrough, bit, handle of a pump
brake: A device, such as the disc or drum brake, for retarding motion This is usually created by means of friction caused by a clamping force from a stationary caliper or shoe, against a rotating rotor or drum
brake: a thicket, or an area overgrown with briers etc
brake: stop travelling by applying a brake; "We had to brake suddenly when a chicken crossed the road"
brake: When a vehicle or its driver brakes, or when a driver brakes a vehicle, the driver makes it slow down or stop by using the brakes. She braked sharply to avoid another car He lit a cigarette and braked the car slightly She braked to a halt and switched off
brake: A sharp bit or snaffle
brake: A device used to slow or stop a vehicle, by friction; often installed on the wheels
brake: A piece of equipment used for forming metal
brake: a metal piece with 2 or 3 prongs on the sled used for stopping the team
brake: Less properly: Any fern
brake: Two- and three-seated sporting rigs, four-wheeled and open; two-seated brake toys are especially prized and are known in only a few advanced collections
brake: To operate a brake
brake: aquilina, common in almost all countries
brake: a restraint used to slow or stop a vehicle an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant any of various ferns of the genus Pteris having pinnately compound leaves and including several popular houseplants cause to stop by applying the brakes; "brake the car before you go into a curve"
brake: 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
brake: A brake will slow the ride, or stop it
brake: past tense of break
brake: A frame for confining a refractory horse while the smith is shoeing him; also, an inclosure to restrain cattle, horses, etc
brake: {i} device which is used to slow or stop a vehicle; thicket; type of fern; carriage
brake: any of various ferns of the genus Pteris having pinnately compound leaves and including several popular houseplants
brake: A mechanism that diminishes or prevents the motion of another device
brake: A cart or carriage without a body, used in breaking in horses
brake: (Thread brake): A device for achieving even thread tension in the various operations of the textile industry
brake: an electro-mechanical device used to prevent the elevator from moving when the car is at rest and no power is applied to the hoist motor On some types of control, it also stops the elevator when power is removed from the hoist motor
brake: hand- or power-activated machinery used to form metal
brake: An extended handle by means of which a number of men can unite in working a pump, as in a fire engine
brake: {f} stop a vehicle, slow down a vehicle
brake: To be stopped or slowed, as if by a brake
brake: A baker's kneading though
brake: An ancient engine of war analogous to the crossbow and ballista
brake: A device to hold a warp beam from turning, made of a metal cable or band which winds on a metal drum
brake: Caliper, Cantilever, Centerpull, Coaster, Disk, Double pivot, Drum, Roller, Rollercam, Roller lever, Sidepull, Single pivot, Spoon****
brake: a system used to bring a car to a stop In an electric car, this is done by the speed control while in a nitro car, braking power is usually done with a disk brake, although some are still known to use the clutch bell and a friction pad as a brake system, although this is rare nowadays
brake: a restraint used to slow or stop a vehicle
brake: large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan
brake: (1) A piece of equipment used for forming metal (2) A straight bend in a metal sheet
brake: A machine for turning or bending the edges of sheet metal Alternately, any device for slowing or stopping a machine or vehicle
brake: an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant
brake: A two-clawed metal bar that the musher stands on to slow the team Used in unison with the Track see The Anatomy of a Dog Sled
brake: An ancient instrument of torture
brake: wooden or iron brake shoe encircling the brake wheel
brake: The mechanism used on a mechanical power press to stop and/or hold the crankshaft, either directly or through a gear train, when the clutch is disengaged
brake: the P
brake: device that helps you stop, as in: When the driver saw the cow in the road, he hit the brake
brake: A large, heavy harrow for breaking clods after plowing; a drag
brake: A type of machine for bending sheet metal
brake: n machine for bending/folding sheet metal Also: bending brake
brake: usually a foot-controlled lever which keeps carriage from rolling when it is applied either to tire, or inserted into spokes of wheels
brake: cause to stop by applying the brakes; "brake the car before you go into a curve"
brake: That part of a carriage, as of a movable battery, or engine, which enables it to turn
brake: n [{also brakes}] rem
brake: Brakes are devices in a vehicle that make it go slower or stop. The brakes began locking A seagull swooped down in front of her car, causing her to slam on the brakes
brake: the handle, manned by up to six men, by which a ships pump was worked
brake: A device, other than a motor, used for retarding or stopping motion by friction or power means
brake: It has solitary stems dividing into three principal branches
brake: A fern of the genus Pteris, esp
brake: Device used to decrease velocity It is usually attached to the heel of one skate
brake: stop travelling by applying a brake; "We had to brake suddenly when a chicken crossed the road
brake: You can use brake in a number of expressions to indicate that something has slowed down or stopped. Illness had put a brake on his progress. A lever or handle on a machine such as a pump. An area overgrown with dense brushwood, briers, and undergrowth; a thicket. A past tense of break. to make a vehicle or bicycle go more slowly or stop by using its brake brake sharply/hard (=brake quickly). Device for decreasing the speed of a body or stopping its motion. Most brakes act on rotating mechanical elements and absorb kinetic energy mechanically, hydrodynamically, or electrically. Mechanical brakes are the most common; they dissipate the kinetic energy as heat generated by mechanical friction between a rotating drum or disk and a stationary friction element. A hydrodynamic (fluid) brake has a rotor (rotating element) and a stator (stationary element). Resistance to rotation is created by fluid friction and circulation of the liquid (usually water) from a series of pockets in the rotor to a series of complementary pockets in the stator. See also air brake
brake: An instrument or machine to break or bruise the woody part of flax or hemp so that it may be separated from the fiber
brake: A thicket; a place overgrown with shrubs and brambles, with undergrowth and ferns, or with canes
brake: The system used to slow a car or bring it to a stop In an electric car, the electronic speed control performs this function In a nitro car, braking is normally provided by a disc brake and brake pads
brake: of Break
brake: 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
brake: {i} buffeter