Brake is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for BRAKE in dictionary:

VERB:
• to slow down or stop
• make a moving vehicle slow down or stop by using a brake
• 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; also, an inclosure to restrain cattle, horses, etc.
• 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 drag.
• 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 friction brake.
• A cart or carriage without a body, used in breaking in horses.
• An ancient instrument of torture.
• stop travelling by applying a brake
• cause to stop by applying the brakes
• apply a brake
NOUN:
• a device for slowing or stopping a moving vehicle, typically by applying pressure to the wheels
• a thing that slows or hinders a process
• an open horse-drawn carriage with four wheels.
• a toothed instrument used for crushing flax and hemp.
• a heavy machine formerly used in agriculture for breaking up large lumps of earth.
• a thicket.
• a coarse fern of warm and tropical countries, frequently having the fronds divided into long linear segments.
• 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.
• A thicket; a place overgrown with shrubs and brambles, with undergrowth and ferns, or with canes.
• 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
• large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan
• an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant
• anything that slows or hinders a process
• device for slowing a vehicle
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• same as bracken
• imp. of Break.

Words related to BRAKE

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How to use BRAKE in a sentence

• They had not gone a quarter of a mile further when something went wrong with the brake.
• The pipes of morn were sounding shrill Through budding woods on plain and hill, And stirred the air with song to wake The sweet-toned birds within the brake.
• And she came from under me, and did ease me out upon the earth, and her heart nigh brake, because that I was so be-bled, and my blood to have stained all that did be near.
• There Abraham brake in pieces the idols worshipped by the unbelievers.
• And when he had thus spoken he took bread and gave thanks to God in presence of them all, and brake it, and began to eat.
• A great flare extended over the brake in that direction.
• The observations made with a string friction brake were continued for 68 hours, everything used being carefully weighed and measured.
• The device itself is a friction brake, constructed in the form of a clip with holes in it for the three ropes to pass through.
• The brake, which is also operated from the two platforms, is applied to all four wheels at the same time.
• The Captain sat down, jerked off the brake, and spoke to his horses.
• Collie, with his foot on the brake and both arms rigid, nodded.
• He grasped the brake handle, and gave it an additional turn.
• He tightened the brake, and the machine stopped dead.
• A spiral spring holds up the brake until pressure is applied by foot power, when the brake contacts with the wooden track and checks the car.
• So the King of Northgalis ran to Sir Launcelot, and brake a spear upon him all to pieces.
• And therewithal the other smote him on his shield great strokes, so that their spears brake.
• THEN came the four sons by couple, and two of them brake their spears, and so did the other two.
• So they rode together passing sore, that Sir Edward and Sir Hue brake their spears upon Sir Uwaine.
• Its body proved an efficient brake, and the two other teams, still abreast, dashed ahead into the darkness for the narrow way.
• I pushed out of the brake after him, and was astonished to find him swinging cheerfully by one lank arm from a rope of creepers that looped down from the foliage overhead.

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