Word Meaning

Meaning of "brakes" and the crossword clue

- Bike part
- Dead man’s handle
- Decelerate
- Reduce vehicle speed
- Truck’s stopping device
- Used to stop runaway baker
- Put the stops on second-class rakes
- imp. of Break.
- A fern of the genus Pteris, esp. the P. aquilina, common in almost all countries. It has solitary stems dividing into three principal branches. Less properly: Any fern.
- A thicket; a place overgrown with shrubs and brambles, with undergrowth and ferns, or with canes.
- An instrument or machine to break or bruise the woody part of flax or hemp so that it may be separated from the fiber.
- An extended handle by means of which a number of men can unite in working a pump, as in a fire engine.
- A baker's kneading though.
- A sharp bit or snaffle.
- A frame for confining a refractory horse while the smith is shoeing him; also, an inclosure to restrain cattle, horses, etc.
- That part of a carriage, as of a movable battery, or engine, which enables it to turn.
- An ancient engine of war analogous to the crossbow and ballista.
- A large, heavy harrow for breaking clods after plowing; a drag.
- A piece of mechanism for retarding or stopping motion by friction, as of a carriage or railway car, by the pressure of rubbers against the wheels, or of clogs or ratchets against the track or roadway, or of a pivoted lever against a wheel or drum in a machine.
- 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.
- A cart or carriage without a body, used in breaking in horses.
- An ancient instrument of torture.
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