The handle of a pump.
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
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
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
The lever or pedal that controls this valve.
A valve that regulates the supply of fuel-air mixture to an internal combustion engine and thus controls its speed; a similar valve that controls the air supply to an engine.
To utter with breaks and interruption, in the manner of a person half suffocated.
To have the throat obstructed so as to be in danger of suffocation; to choke; to suffocate.
To control or adjust the speed of (an engine).
To breathe hard, as when nearly suffocated.
To cut back on the speed of (an engine, person, organization, network connection, etc.).
To strangle or choke someone.