noun.
A break; brack; flaw.
noun.
A mechanical device for arresting the motion of a vehicle: now usually classed with brake, see braken., 9.
To vomit.
To vomit; cast up.
noun.
Obsolete or archaic preterit of break.
To crack or break (the stalks of flax) in order to separate the woody portions from the fiber. Now written break.
To retard or stop the motion of by the application of a brake.
noun.
A place overgrown with bushes or brushwood, shrubs, and brambles; a thicket, in the United States, a cane-brake, that is, a tract of ground overgrown with cane, Arundinaria macrosperma.
noun.
A single bush, or a number of bushes growing by themselves.
noun.
The name given to Pteris aquilina and other large ferns. See Pteris.
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In cracker-baking, a machine for rolling dough, to be used in making gingersnaps and other thin cakes, into sheets ready for the panning-machine.
noun.
In sheet-metal work, a machine for bending and forming sheet-metal, used in making larger forms such as metal cornices; a cornice-brake.
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A tool or machine for breaking up the woody portion of flax, to loosen it from the harl or fibers.
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The handle or lever by which a pump is worked.
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A bakers' kneading-machine.
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A sharp bit or snaffle: as, “a snaffle bit or brake,”
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An apparatus for confining refractory horses while being shod.
noun.
A medieval engine of war analogous to the ballista.
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A large heavy harrow for breaking clods after plowing. Also called drag.
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A kind of wagonette. A large and heavy variety of this vehicle is used for breaking in young horses to harness.
noun.
Any mechanical device for arresting or retarding the motion of a vehicle or car by means of friction.
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The fore part of a carriage, by which it is turned.
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A basket-makers' tool for stripping the bark from willow wands.
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An old instrument of torture. Also called the Duke of Exeter's daughter.