Brakes is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for BRAKES in dictionary:

VERB:
• BRAKE, to slow down or stop
• make a moving vehicle slow down or stop by using 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 braking device consisting of a combination of interacting parts that work to slow a motor vehicle

Words related to BRAKES

brake11 braked13 braking14

Words that contain BRAKES

unbrakes14 brakesman17 brakesmen17 aerobrakes16 bandbrakes19 canebrakes18 footbrakes19 handbrakes20 overbrakes19 parabrakes18 chainbrakes22

How to use BRAKES in a sentence

• The cane brakes were so heavy that it was common for bears to hide there, and, at night, come out and carry off hogs.
• The tall canes growing in the brakes among the vineyards rustle as if shaken by a spectral hand.
• The sensation of rushing down hill with power and brakes absolutely detached is peculiar and exhilarating.
• He followed it until a late hour, when, striking the willow brakes again and hence the neighborhood of the river, he picketed his horse and lay down to rest.
• He took her reluctance to say good-by as another indication of her regret that he must go back to the brakes.
• His new horse had not had time to get warm before Duane reached a high sandy bluff below which lay the willow brakes.
• I felt my car go bump, bump, and slammed on my brakes before I even looked up.
• Graves, and our chauffeur, who had to steer the car and work the brakes, walked.
• It was second nature to jam on the brakes and to make the sudden stop.
• The brakes of the pumps hung far above their heads, and after toiling for three hours one of the standards broke and things looked hopeless.
• The train slowed almost to a stop, the grinding brakes eased, and it drew away, leaving Pete and Brevoort squatting behind a row of empty oil barrels along the track.
• You all drive in brakes together to the various points of interest in the surrounding country.
• It was on the second day, on the long hill that runs from Manaccan down to Helford Ferry, that Gerda suddenly took her brakes off and shot after her.
• I heard the whistle of the air brakes and knew the train must be slowing up.
• With grinding of brakes and the screaming of locked wheels, the car was brought to a standstill within a few feet of him.
• The men on the front brakes should be in a stooping position, those behind standing erect.
• But would the shoes grip the wheels with force sufficient to stop the car? There was a shrill screech as the brakes were applied by the boys.
• It came on with screaming whistle and noisy brakes and roaring wheels.
• The movement downward was with a rush that gave no time for putting on the brakes.
• Fearing that all would be killed if he did not stop the machine, the lad threw off the clutch and applied the brakes.
• No sooner come the daisies fair To fleck the meadows green, Than thy untrammelled notes are heard Rising the brakes between.
• Also, remember that your brakes may not work well after the wheels of your car have been in deep water.
• The brakes were such as are used on a coach, and it was a scientific matter, when the engineer gave his warning-whistle to break up a train on arriving at a station.

Similar words containing BRAKE without suffix s

brake11 braked13 unbrake13 brakeage15 brakeman16 brakemen16 unbraked15 unbrakes14 aerobrake15 bandbrake18 brakeages16 brakeless15 brakesman17 brakesmen17 canebrake17 footbrake18 handbrake19 overbrake18 parabrake17 aerobraked17 aerobrakes16 bandbrakes19 canebrakes18 chainbrake21 footbrakes19 handbrakes20 overbraked20 overbrakes19 parabrakes18 chainbrakes22

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