brake

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1. A device for slowing or stopping motion, as of a vehicle, especially by contact friction.
2. Something that slows or stops action.

1. To operate or apply a brake.
2. To be slowed or stopped by or as if by the operation of a brake.

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brake¹

top: drum brake system

bottom: disc brake system

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1. A toothed device for crushing and beating flax or hemp.
2. A heavy harrow for breaking clods of earth.
3. An apparatus for kneading large amounts of dough.
4. A machine for bending and folding sheet metal.

1. To crush (flax or hemp) in a toothed device.
2. To break up (clods of earth) with a harrow.

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1. Any of various ferns of the genus Pteris having pinnately compound leaves and including several popular houseplants.
2. Any of certain other ferns, such as the bracken or the cliff brake.

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