brake vs windrow

brake

noun
  • A thicket, or an area overgrown with briers etc. 

  • 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 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. 

verb
  • 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 

windrow

noun
  • A ridge or berm at a perimeter 

  • The green border of a field, dug up in order to carry the earth onto other land to improve it. 

  • A line of snow left behind by the edge of a snowplow’s blade. 

  • A long snowbank along the side of a road. 

  • A line of leaves etc heaped up by the wind. 

  • A similar streak of seaweed etc on the surface of the sea formed by Langmuir circulation. 

  • A line of gravel left behind by the edge of a grader’s blade. 

  • A row of cut grain or hay allowed to dry in a field. 

verb
  • To arrange (e.g. new-made hay) in lines or windrows. 

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