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brake

Length / number of characters: 5
Number of words: 1

  • A thicket
  • large coarse fern often several feet high
  • a restraint used to slow or stop a vehicle
  • any of various ferns of the genus Pteris having pinnately compound leaves and including several popular houseplants
  • an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant
  • anything that slows or hinders a process
  • stop travelling by applying a brake
  • cause to stop by applying the brakes
  • A fern of the genus Pteris, esp. the P. aquilina, common in almost all countries. It has solitary stems dividing into three principal branches. Less properly: Any fern
  • An instrument or machine to break or bruise the woody part of flax or hemp so that it may be separated from the fiber
  • An extended handle by means of which a number of men can unite in working a pump, as in a fire engine
  • A baker´s kneading though
  • A sharp bit or snaffle
  • A frame for confining a refractory horse while the smith is shoeing him
  • That part of a carriage, as of a movable battery, or engine, which enables it to turn
  • An ancient engine of war analogous to the crossbow and ballista
  • A large, heavy harrow for breaking clods after plowing
  • A piece of mechanism for retarding or stopping motion by friction, as of a carriage or railway car, by the pressure of rubbers against the wheels, or of clogs or ratchets against the track or roadway, or of a pivoted lever against a wheel or drum in a machine
  • 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 cart or carriage without a body, used in breaking in horses
  • An ancient instrument of torture
  • Residential area (city, town, village) in Germany in Nordrhein-Westfalen
  • Residential area (city, town, village) in Germany in Niedersachsen
  • Residential area (city, town, village) in the United States of America (USA) in Louisiana
  • Residential area (city, town, village) in the United States of America (USA) in North Carolina
  • Residential area (city, town, village) in the United States of America (USA) in West Virginia

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