What is the meaning of Brake?

A device used to slow or stop the motion of a wheel, or of a vehicle, usually by friction (although other resistive forces, such as electromagnetic fields or aerodynamic drag, can also be used); also, the controls or apparatus used to engage such a mechanism such as the pedal in a car.

The act of braking, of using a brake to slow down a machine or vehicle

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.

Something used to retard or stop some action, process etc.

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

  1. The winch of a crossbow.

The winch of a crossbow.

The handle of a pump.

A baker’s kneading trough.

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

A frame for confining a refractory horse while the smith is shoeing it.

An enclosure to restrain cattle, horses, etc.

A cart or carriage without a body, used in breaking in horses.

A carriage for transporting shooting parties and their equipment.

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

To operate a brake or brakes.

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

Certain ferns, including

  1. Any fern in the genus Pteris.
  2. Bracken (Pteridium spp.).

Any fern in the genus Pteris.

Bracken (Pteridium spp.).

A thicket, or an area overgrown with briers etc.

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

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

A tool used for breaking flax or hemp.

To bruise and crush; to knead.

To pulverise with a harrow.

A cage.

A type of torture instrument.

simple past of break

singular past subjunctive of breken

singular present subjunctive of braken

simple past of brough

Source: wiktionary.org