Brake

Noun

 * 1) A device used to slow or stop a vehicle, by friction; often installed on the wheels, then often in the plural.
 * 2) Something that slows or stops an action
 * 3)  The handle, manned by up to six men, by which a ship's pump was worked
 * 4) A type of machine for bending sheet metal.  (See wikipedia.)
 * 5) A fern type, bracken
 * 6) A canebreak
 * 7) A thicket, or an area overgrown with briers etc.
 * 8) A four-wheeled carriage type

Verb

 * 1)  To operate (a) brake(s).
 * 2)  To be stopped or slowed (as if) by braking.
 * 3)  To bruise and crush; to knead
 * 4)  To pulverise with a harrow

Adjectives for Brake
dusky; shrieking; grinding; tricky; rasping; serviceable; shrill; inadequate; hissing.

Verbs for Brake
adjust —s; apply—; clamp on—; contact—; depend on—; depress—; devise—; draw—; employ—; exercise—; fit with—; free—; jam on—; operate—; pedal—; press on—; regulate—; release—; tighten—; utilize—; —acts; —arrests; —checks; —controls; — fails; —grips; —locks; —reduces; —safe¬guards; —screams; —shrieks; —squeals; —; —binds; —denotes; sents; —slips.

Thesaurus
restraint, restriction, retard, scotch, sea anchor, set back, shackle, slack off, slack up, slacken, slow, slow down, slow up, snaffle, spoke, stalemate, stall, stay, stem, stem the tide, stop, stop cold, stop dead, stop short, stymie, take in sail, thicket, thickset, throttle down, trammel, arrest, backpedal, backwater, bar, bearing rein, bit, block, boscage, bosket, bring to, bring up short, canebrake, ceja, chain, chamisal, chaparral, check, checkmate, checkrein, chock, clip the wings, clog, constraint, control, coppice, copse, copsewood, countercheck, covert, curb, curb bit, cut short, dam, damper, deadlock, decelerate, delay, detain, doorstop, drag, drag sail, draw rein, drift anchor, drift sail, drogue, ease off, ease up, fetter, freeze, frith, halt, hold back, hold in check, hold up, holdback, impede, keep back, let down, let up, lose ground, lose momentum, lose speed, martingale, moderate, motte, obstruct, pelham, pull up, put paid to, reef, rein, rein in, relax, remora,

Etymology 1
Recorded since c. 1440, from braeke:, from breken: (=modern Dutch), applied to many crushing implements, and the ring through the nose of a draught ox. The word was influenced in sense by brac:, a form of bras "an arm, lever or handle", used in English from 1380 and applied to "a bridle or curb" from 1430. One or both took up the main modern meaning of "stopping device for a wheel," first attested 1772.

Etymology 2
From, from braken:.

Etymology 3
From break:.

Related terms

 * air brake
 * antilock brake
 * brake band
 * brake disc
 * brake drum
 * brake fluid
 * brake harrow
 * brake horsepower
 * brake lining
 * brakeman, brakesman
 * brake drum
 * brake pad
 * brake van
 * brake wheel
 * brakey
 * caliper brake
 * disc brake
 * emergency brake
 * foot brake
 * hand brake
 * parking brake
 * press brake

Derived terms

 * brakeage

Noun

 * Dutch:

Synonyms

 * break