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"Brake" Definition

noun

A device for slowing or stopping motion, as of a vehicle, especially by contact friction.
A heavy harrow for breaking clods of earth.
A lever or handle on a machine such as a pump.
A machine for bending and folding sheet metal.
A toothed device for crushing and beating flax or hemp.

verb

Archaic A past tense of break.
To retard or stop by or as if by a brake.
To operate or manage a brake.
To apply the brake on a vehicle.
To become checked by a brake.

verb-intransitive

To be slowed or stopped by or as if by the operation of a brake.
To operate or apply a brake.

verb-transitive

To break up (clods of earth) with a harrow.
To crush (flax or hemp) in a toothed device.
To reduce the speed of with or as if with a brake.

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