Broked vs Braked - What's the difference?

broked | braked |

As verbs the difference between broked and braked

is that broked is past tense of broke while braked is past tense of brake.

broked

English

Verb

(head)

(broke)

broke

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

(informal) Lacking money; bankrupt

(informal) Broken.

Synonyms

* boracic (UK rhyming slang), skint (UK slang), stony-broke (qualifier, UK slang') * See also

Noun

(en noun)

(papermaking) Paper or board that is discarded and repulped during the manufacturing process.

*1880 , James Dunbar, The Practical Papermaker: A Complete Guide to the Manufacture of Paper , page 12:

*:If the broke accumulates, a larger proportion can be used in making coloured papers, otherwise the above quantity is sufiicient.

*1914 , The World's Paper Trade Review, Volume 62 , page 204:

*:Presumably, most of the brokes and waste were used up in this manner, and during the manufacture of the coarse stuff little or no attention was paid to either cleanliness or colour.

*2014 September 25, Judge Diane Wood, NCR Corp. v. George A. Whiting Paper Co. :

*:These mills purchase broke from other paper mills through middlemen and use it to make paper.

Verb

(head)

(break)

(archaic, or, poetic)

* 1999 October 3, J. Stewart Burns, "Mars University", Futurama , season 2, episode 2, Fox Broadcasting Company

Guenther: I guess the hat must have broke my fall.

# (nautical) Demoted, deprived of a commission.

He was broke and rendered unfit to serve His Majesty at sea.

Verb

(brok)

To broker; to transact business for another.

(Brome)

(obsolete) To act as procurer in love matters; to pimp.

* Fanshawe

We do want a certain necessary woman to broke between them, Cupid said.

* Shakespeare

And brokes with all that can in such a suit / Corrupt the tender honour of a maid.

Statistics

* English irregular simple past forms

braked

English

Verb

(head)

(brake)

Anagrams

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brake

English

(brake)

Etymology 1

Apparently a shortened form of (bracken). (Compare (chick), (chicken).)

Noun

(en noun)

A fern; bracken.

Etymology 2

Compare Middle Low German brake.

Noun

(en noun)

A thicket, or an area overgrown with briers etc.

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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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

Anagrams

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