Noun

(en noun)

(dated) A wheeled vehicle, drawn by a horse or other animal.

A wheeled vehicle that moves independently, with at least three wheels, powered mechanically, steered by a driver and mostly for personal transportation; a motorcar or automobile.

She drove her car to the mall.

* {{quote-book, year=2006, author=

, title=Internal Combustion , chapter=1 citation , passage=If successful, Edison and Ford—in 1914—would move society away from the ever more expensive and then universally known killing hazards of gasoline cars : […] .}}

(rail transport, chiefly, North America) An unpowered unit in a railroad train.

The conductor coupled the cars to the locomotive.

(rail transport) an individual vehicle, powered or unpowered, in a multiple unit.

The 11:10 to London was operated by a 4-car diesel multiple unit

(rail transport) A passenger-carrying unit in a subway or elevated train, whether powered or not.

From the front-most car of the subway, he filmed the progress through the tunnel.

A rough unit of quantity approximating the amount which would fill a railroad car.

We ordered five hundred cars of gypsum.

The moving, load-carrying component of an elevator or other cable-drawn transport mechanism.

Fix the car of the express elevator - the door is sticking.

The passenger-carrying portion of certain amusement park rides, such as Ferris wheels.

The most exciting part of riding a Ferris wheel is when your car goes over the top.

The part of an airship, such as a balloon or dirigible, which houses the passengers and control apparatus.

* {{quote-book, 1850, , 3= A System of Aeronautics, page=152

, passage=Everything being apparently in readiness now, I stepped into the car of the balloon,

(sailing) A sliding fitting that runs along a track.

* {{quote-book, 1995, Ken Textor, The New Book of Sail Trim, page=201 citation

, passage=On boats 25 feet or more, it is best to mount a mast car and track on the front of the mast so you can adjust the height of the pole above the deck }}

(uncountable, US) The aggregate of desirable characteristics of a car.

Buy now! You can get more car for your money.

(US) A floating perforated box for living fish.

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Noun

(en noun)

(computing) The first part of a cons in LISP. The first element of a list

* Matt Kaufmann, Panagiotis Manolios, and J Strother Moore, Computer-aided reasoning: an approach , 2000 :

The elements of a list are the successive cars''' along the "cdr chain." That is, the elements are the '''car''', the '''car''' of the cdr, the '''car of the cdr of the cdr, etc.

Noun

(en noun)

A fern; bracken.

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.

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.

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)

#*

, 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.

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 .