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Word: brake (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Noun:

  • A canebreak
  • A device used to slow or stop a vehicle, by friction; often installed on the wheels, then often in the plural.
  • A fern type, bracken
  • A four-wheeled carriage type
  • A thicket, or an area overgrown with briers etc.
  • A type of wikipedia.)
  • nautical The handle, manned by up to six men, by which a ship's pump was worked
  • obsolete A specific torture instrument
  • Something that slows or stops an action

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Verb:

  • break
  • intransitive To be stopped or slowed (as if) by braking.
  • intransitive To operate (a) brake(s).
  • transitive To bruise and crush; to knead
  • transitive To pulverise with a harrow

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