[breɪk], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a device for slowing or stopping a moving vehicle, typically by applying pressure to the wheels
(e.g: he slammed on his brakes)



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Origin:
late 18th century: of unknown origin

[breɪk], (Verb)

Definitions:
- make a moving vehicle slow down or stop by using a brake
(e.g: she had to brake hard to avoid a milk float)


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Origin:
late 18th century: of unknown origin

[breɪk], (Noun)

Definitions:
- an open horse-drawn carriage with four wheels


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Origin:
mid 19th century: variant of break

[breɪk], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a toothed instrument used for crushing flax and hemp


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Origin:
late Middle English: possibly related to Middle Low German brake and Dutch braak, and perhaps also to break

[breɪk], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a thicket
(e.g: mist floats through the hawthorn brake)


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Origin:
Old English bracu (first recorded in the plural in fearnbraca ‘thickets of fern’), related to Middle Low German brake ‘branch, stump’

[breɪk], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a coarse fern of warm and tropical countries, frequently having the fronds divided into long linear segments


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Origin:
Middle English: perhaps an abbreviation of bracken (interpreted as plural)

[breɪk], (Verb)

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