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Noun
Definition: a restraint used to slow or stop a vehicle
Definition: any of various ferns of the genus Pteris having pinnately compound leaves and including several popular houseplants
Definition: large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan
Definition: an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant
Definition: anything that slows or hinders a process; "she wan not ready to put the brakes on her life with a marriage"; "new legislation will put the brakes on spending"
Definition: A fern; bracken.
Definition: A thicket, or an area overgrown with briers etc.
Definition: A tool used for breaking flax or hemp.
Definition: An ancient engine of war analogous to the crossbow and ballista.
Definition: A cage.
Verb
Definition: stop travelling by applying a brake; "We had to brake suddenly when a chicken crossed the road"
Definition: cause to stop by applying the brakes; "brake the car before you go into a curve"
Definition: To bruise and crush; to knead
Definition: To operate (a) brake(s).
Definition: simple past tense of break