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Brake   /breɪk/   Listen
Brake

noun
1.
A restraint used to slow or stop a vehicle.
2.
Any of various ferns of the genus Pteris having pinnately compound leaves and including several popular houseplants.
3.
Large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan.  Synonyms: bracken, pasture brake, Pteridium aquilinum.
4.
An area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant.
5.
Anything that slows or hinders a process.  "New legislation will put the brakes on spending"
verb
1.
Stop travelling by applying a brake.
2.
Cause to stop by applying the brakes.



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"Brake" Quotes from Famous Books



... Sea brake upon the poop and quarter, upon us, as it covered our ship from stern to stem, like a garment or a vast cloud. It filled her brimful for a while within, from the hatches up to the spar deck. ...
— Southern Literature From 1579-1895 • Louise Manly

... impenetrable; whilst the shield of his opponent, being of more brittle stuff, did seem as though it would have cloven asunder with the desperate strokes of Sir Tarquin's sword. Nothing daunted, Sir Lancelot brake ofttimes through his adversary's guard, and smote him once until the blood trickled down amain. At this sight, Sir Tarquin waxed ten times more fierce; and summoning all his strength for the blow, wrought so lustily on the head of Sir Lancelot that he began to reel; ...
— Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2) • John Roby

... to," said Uncle Lucky, and he put on the brake and the Luckymobile came to a standstill. And there in the road stood a big Policeman Cat, with a club and gold buttons on his coat and a big helmet, and his number was two dozen ...
— Billy Bunny and Uncle Bull Frog • David Magie Cory

... promised bride, List to my love—come fly with me, Where down the dark Ben Wyvis side The torrent dashes wild and free. O'er sunny glen and forest brake; O'er meadow green and mountain grand; O'er rocky gorge and gleaming lake— Come,—reign, ...
— The Celtic Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 2, December 1875 • Various

... not seen about the court: "for," quoth he, "I have heard of thy aspiring speeches, and intended treasons." This doom was strange unto Rosalynde, and presently, covered with the shield of her innocence, she boldly brake out in reverent terms to have cleared herself; but Torismond would admit of no reason, nor durst his lords plead for Rosalynde, although her beauty had made some of them passionate, seeing the figure of wrath portrayed in his brow. Standing ...
— Rosalynde - or, Euphues' Golden Legacy • Thomas Lodge


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