The act of braking, of using a brake to slow down a machine or vehicle
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.
A fern; bracken (Pteridium).
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
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
the act or an instance of dissuading