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n.
A kind of hydraulic brake for regulating the action of pumping engines and other machines; -- sometimes called dashpot.
a.
Full of brakes; abounding with brambles, shrubs, or ferns; rough; thorny.
n.
A continuous marginal covering of sporangia, in certain ferns, as in the common brake, or the cup-shaped processes of the filmy ferns.
n.
The part of a railroad car brake which presses upon the wheel to retard its motion.
v. t.
An ancient instrument of torture.
n.
A car used on freight or construction trains for brakemen, workmen, etc.; a tool car.
n.
Any wheel worked by hand; esp., one the rim of which serves as the handle by which a valve, car brake, or other part is adjusted.
n.
A man in charge of a brake or brakes.
pl.
of Brakeman
n.
A device for grasping or holding anything; a brake to stop a wheel.
v. t.
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.
n.
A kind of brake or shoe for a wagon wheel.
v. t.
A cart or carriage without a body, used in breaking in horses.
n.
See Brakeman.
v. t.
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.
v. t.
A device for checking motion, or for measuring friction. See Brake, n. 9 & 10.
n.
The man in charge of the winding (or hoisting) engine for a mine.
v. t.
A large, heavy harrow for breaking clods after plowing; a drag.
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