brakes

/bɹeɪks/

noun

  1. 1

    A fern; bracken.

noun

  1. 1

    A thicket, or an area overgrown with briers etc.

noun

  1. 1

    A tool used for breaking flax or hemp.

  2. 2

    A type of machine for bending sheet metal. (See wikipedia.)

  3. 3

    A large, heavy harrow for breaking clods after ploughing; a drag.

verb

  1. 1

    To bruise and crush; to knead

    “The farmer's son brakes the flax while mother brakes the bread dough”
  2. 2

    To pulverise with a harrow

noun

  1. 1

    An ancient engine of war analogous to the crossbow and ballista.

  2. 2

    The handle of a pump.

  3. 3

    A device used to slow or stop the motion of a wheel, or of a vehicle, by friction; also, the controls or apparatus used to engage such a mechanism such as the pedal in a car.

    “She slammed the brakes when she saw a child run in front of the car.”
  4. 4

    A baker's kneading trough.

  5. 5

    A device used to confine or prevent the motion of an animal.

  6. 6

    That part of a carriage, as of a movable battery, or engine, which enables it to turn.

Synonyms

verb

  1. 1

    To operate (a) brake(s).

  2. 2

    To be stopped or slowed (as if) by braking.

Antonyms

noun

  1. 1

    A cage.

  2. 2

    A type of torture instrument.

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