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- English Word Brake Definition 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.
- English Word Brake Definition A cart or carriage without a body, used in breaking in horses.
- English Word Brake Definition An ancient instrument of torture.
- English Word Brake Definition of Break
- English Word Brakeman Definition A man in charge of a brake or brakes.
- English Word Brakeman Definition The man in charge of the winding (or hoisting) engine for a mine.
- English Word Brakemen Definition of Brakeman
- English Word Braky Definition Full of brakes; abounding with brambles, shrubs, or ferns; rough; thorny.
- English Word Brama Definition See Brahma.
- English Word Bramah press Definition A hydrostatic press of immense power, invented by Joseph Bramah of London. See under Hydrostatic.
- English Word Bramble Definition Any plant of the genus Rubus, including the raspberry and blackberry. Hence: Any rough, prickly shrub.
- English Word Bramble Definition The brambling or bramble finch.
- English Word Bramble bush Definition The bramble, or a collection of brambles growing together.
- English Word Bramble net Definition A net to catch birds.
- English Word Brambled Definition Overgrown with brambles.
- English Word Brambling Definition The European mountain finch (Fringilla montifringilla); -- called also bramble finch and bramble.
- English Word Brambly Definition Pertaining to, resembling, or full of, brambles.
- English Word Brame Definition Sharp passion; vexation.
- English Word Bramin Definition Alt. of Braminic
- English Word Braminic Definition See Brahman, Brachmanic, etc.