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Word: brake
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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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