brake

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• Brake

  ·- imp. of Break. II. Brake ·vt A sharp bit or snaffle. III. Brake ·vt A baker's kneading though. ...

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• brake

  1) The common name for fern. In Sweden the female fern is called bracken. In the north of England it...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• brake

  The handle or lever by which a common ship-pump is usually worked. It operates by means of two iron ...

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• Air brake

  ·- A railway brake operated by condensed air. ...

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• cane-brake

  A thicket of canes. They abound in the low lands of Louisiana and Mississippi. ...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• cypress-brake

  A basin-shaped depression of land near the margin of shallow, sluggish bayous, into which the supera...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• pump-brake

  The handle or lever of the old and simplest form of pump. ...

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