brake | (noun) a restraint used to slow or stop a vehicle | - |
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(noun) anything that slows or hinders a process | - |
(noun) an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant | - |
(noun) large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan | Synonyms: bracken, pasture brake, Pteridium aquilinum |
(noun) any of various ferns of the genus Pteris having pinnately compound leaves and including several popular houseplants | - |
(verb) cause to stop by applying the brakes | - |
(verb) stop travelling by applying a brake | - |
brakeman | (noun) a railroad employee responsible for a train's brakes | - |
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brakes | (noun) a braking device consisting of a combination of interacting parts that work to slow a motor vehicle | Synonyms: brake system |
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braky | (adjective) abounding with bracken | - |
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(adjective) covered with brambles and ferns and other undergrowth | Synonyms: brambly |