The act of braking, of using a brake to slow down a machine or vehicle

(intransitive) To operate (a) brake(s). / (intransitive) To be stopped or slowed (as if) by braking.

A fern; bracken (Pteridium). / Any fern in the genus Pteris

A thicket, or an area overgrown with briers etc.

A tool used for breaking flax or hemp. / A type of machine for bending sheet metal. (See wikipedia.) / A large, heavy harrow for breaking clods after ploughing; a drag.

(transitive) To bruise and crush; to knead / (transitive) To pulverise with a harrow

(obsolete) A cage. / (now historical) A type of torture instrument.

(archaic) simple past tense of break

simple past tense and past participle of brake

(mechanical engineering, rail transport, aviation, of a wheel) Equipped with brakes (the vehicle-stopping devices).