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brake1 / brāk/ • n. a device for slowing or stopping a moving vehicle, typically by applying pressure to the wheels: he slammed on his brakes. ∎ a thing that slows or hinders a process: China's decision to put the brakes on economic reform. • v. [intr.] make a moving vehicle slow down or stop by using a brake: drivers who brake abruptly [as adj.] (braking) an anti-lock braking system. brake2 • n. hist. an open, horse-drawn, four-wheeled carriage. brake3 • n. a toothed instrument used for crushing flax and hemp. ∎ (also brake harrow) a heavy machine formerly used in agriculture for breaking up large lumps of earth. brake4 • n. archaic or poetic/lit. a thicket. See also canebrake, fernbrake. brake2 (also brake fern) • n. a coarse fern (genus Pteris, family Pteridaceae) of warm and tropical countries, frequently having the fronds divided into long linear segments. ∎ archaic term for bracken. brake3 • archaic past of break.
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a clump of brushes, brushwood, or briars. See also thicket.
Example: brakes of fern, shrub, and fallen trees, 1772.
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