braced English
Etymology 1
See (verb)
Verb
(head)
(brace)
Etymology 2
From (brace) (noun)
Adjective
( -)
Having braces or similar supports.
(heraldry, of multiple figures of the same form) Interlaced.
- three chevronels braced in base
Derived terms
* braced wall line
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braked English
Verb
(head)
(brake)
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brake English
(brake)
Etymology 1
Apparently a shortened form of (bracken). (Compare (chick), (chicken).)
Etymology 2
Compare Middle Low German brake.
Noun
( en noun)
A thicket, or an area overgrown with briers etc.
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- He halts, and searches with his eyes
- Among the scatter'd rocks:
- And now at distance can discern
- A stirring in a brake of fern
* Shakespeare
- Rounds rising hillocks, brakes obscure and rough, / To shelter thee from tempest and from rain.
* Sir Walter Scott
- He stayed not for brake , and he stopped not for stone.
Etymology 3
From (etyl) braeke.
Noun
( en noun)
A tool used for breaking flax or hemp.
A type of machine for bending sheet metal. (See .)
A large, heavy harrow for breaking clods after ploughing; a drag.
Verb
( brak)
To bruise and crush; to knead
- The farmer's son brakes''' the flax while mother ' brakes the bread dough
To pulverise with a harrow
Derived terms
* brakeage
Etymology 4
Origin uncertain.
Noun
( en noun)
(label) An ancient engine of war analogous to the crossbow and ballista.
# (label) The winch of a crossbow.
The handle of a pump.
A device used to slow or stop the motion of a wheel, or of a vehicle, by friction; also, the controls or apparatus used to engage such a mechanism such as the pedal in a car.
# The act of braking, of using a brake to slow down a machine or vehicle
# (label) 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.
# (label) Something used to retard or stop some action, process etc.
A baker's kneading trough.
- (Johnson)
A device used to confine or prevent the motion of an animal.
# A frame for confining a refractory horse while the smith is shoeing him.
# An enclosure to restrain cattle, horses, etc.
#* 1868 , March 7, The Illustrated London News , number 1472, volume 52, “Law and Police”, page 223 :
- He was shooting, and the field where the [cock-fighting] ring was verged on the shooting-brake where the rabbits were.
#* J. Brende
- A horseand because of his fierceness kept him within a brake of iron bars.
# A cart or carriage without a body, used in breaking in horses.
# A carriage for transporting shooting parties and their equipment.(w)
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, title=( The Celebrity), chapter=8
, passage=It had been arranged as part of the day's programme that Mr. Cooke was to drive those who wished to go over the Rise in his new brake .}}
#*{{quote-book, year=1976, author=(Terrance Dicks)
, title=, chapter=1, page=11
, passage=A few moments later they heard the sound of an engine, and a muddy shooting brake appeared on the road behind them.}}
That part of a carriage, as of a movable battery, or engine, which enables it to turn.
Derived 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
Descendants
* Portuguese:
Verb
(brak)
To operate (a) brake(s).
To be stopped or slowed (as if) by braking.
Etymology 5
Origin uncertain.
Noun
( en noun)
(obsolete) A cage.
* 2011 , Thomas Penn, Winter King , Penguin 2012, p. 83:
- Methods of applying pain were many and ingenious, in particular the ways of twisting, stretching and manipulating the body out of shape, normally falling under the catch-all term of the rack, or the brakes .
Etymology 6
Inflected forms.
Verb
( head)
(lb) (break)
* Exodus 32:3, KJV:
- And all the people brake off the golden earrings
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