A fern; bracken (Pteridium).
A type of machine for bending sheet metal. (See wikipedia.)
Something used to retard or stop some action, process etc.
That part of a carriage, as of a movable battery, or engine, which enables it to turn.
Any fern in the genus Pteris
A type of torture instrument.
An ancient engine of war analogous to the crossbow and ballista.
A tool used for breaking flax or hemp.
A cart or carriage without a body, used in breaking in horses.ᵂ
The handle of a pump.
An enclosure to restrain cattle, horses, etc.
A large, heavy harrow for breaking clods after ploughing; a drag.
A thicket, or an area overgrown with briers etc.
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.
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.
A baker's kneading trough.
A carriage for transporting shooting parties and their equipment.ᵂ
The act of braking, of using a brake to slow down a machine or vehicle
A frame for confining a refractory horse while the smith is shoeing him.
To pulverise with a harrow
To operate (a) brake(s).
To be stopped or slowed (as if) by braking.
To bruise and crush; to knead
A medicinal plant used to relieve such symptoms.
Severe fussiness and crying, especially of infants with certain medical conditions.
Severe pains that grip the abdomen or the disease that causes such pains (due to intestinal or bowel-related problems).
Relating to the colon; colonic.