Sekirov Dictionary

brake

/bɹeɪk/

noun23

  1. the part of a vehicle that a driver presses to push something hard against the turning wheels and slow or stop them
  2. 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.
  3. (figurative) Something used to retard or stop some action, process etc.
  4. The act of braking, of using a brake to slow down a machine or vehicle
  5. A cart or carriage without a body, used in breaking in horses.
  6. A carriage for transporting shooting parties and their equipment.
  7. A thicket, or an area overgrown with briers etc.
  8. Certain ferns.
  9. Any fern in the genus Pteris.
  10. Bracken (Pteridium spp.).
  11. A device used to confine or prevent the motion of an animal.
  12. A frame for confining a refractory horse while the smith is shoeing it.
  13. An enclosure to restrain cattle, horses, etc.
  14. A type of machine for bending sheet metal. (See wikipedia.)
  15. An ancient engine of war analogous to the crossbow and ballista.
  16. (historical) A type of torture instrument.
  17. The handle of a pump.
  18. A large, heavy harrow for breaking clods of earth after ploughing; a drag.
  19. A tool used for breaking flax or hemp.
  20. That part of a carriage, as of a movable battery, or engine, which enables it to turn.
  21. A baker’s kneading trough.
  22. (no longer used) A cage.
  23. (no longer used) The winch of a crossbow.

verb4

  1. To operate a brake or brakes.
  2. To be stopped or slowed (as if) by braking.
  3. To bruise and crush; to knead.
  4. To pulverise with a harrow.
forms

braked · braking · brakes

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