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h shrubs and brambles, with undergrowth and ferns, or with canes. Rounds rising hillocks, brakes obscure and rough, To shelter thee from tempest and from rain. Shak. He stayed not for brake, and he stopped not for stone. Sir W. Scott. Cane brake, a thicket of canes. See Canebrake.

A man in charge of a brake or brakes.

A railway brake operated by condensed air. Knight.

An ancient rural game, commonly played round stacks of barley, or other grain, in which some of the party attempt to catch others who run from a goal.

A thicket of canes. Ellicott.

sound; to roar. As loud as belleth wind in hell. Chaucer. The wild buck bells from ferny brake. Sir W. Scott.

A brake or fern. Sir W. Scott.

Full of brakes; abounding with brambles, shrubs, or ferns; rough; thorny. In the woods and braky glens. W. Browne.

A device for checking motion, or for measuring friction. See Brake, n. 9 & 10.

See Brakeman.

burdock. Also, any weed which bears burs. Amongst rude burs and thistles. Milton. Bur and brake and brier. Tennyson.

A car used on freight or construction trains for brakemen, workmen, etc.; a tool car. [U. S.]

A kind of hydraulic brake for regulating the action of pumping engines and other machines; -- sometimes called dashpot.

ating or varying from uninformity; not interrupted; not joined or articulated. Continuous brake (Railroad), a brake which is attached to each car a train, and can be caused to operate in all the cars simultaneously from a point on any car or on the engine. -- Continuous impost. See Impost.

A drag or brake applied to the wheels of a carriage, to check their velocity in going down a hill. Knight.

A wedge, or brake, to check the motion of a machine or car; a chock. Knight.

To She cuddles low beneath the brake; Nor would she stay, nor dares she fly. Prior.

when broken and cleaned by hatcheling or combing. Earth flax (Min.), amianthus. -- Flax brake, a machine for removing the woody portion of flax from the fibrous. -- Flax comb, a hatchel, hackle, or heckle. -- Flax cotton, the fiber of flax, reduced by steeping in bicarbinate of soda and acidulated liquids, and prep…

To provide with a form, as a hare. See Form, n., 9. The melancholy hare is formed in brakes and briers. Drayton.

the pedals are stopped or rotated backwards. Freewheelcycles are usually fitted with hub brakes or rim brakes, operated by back pedaling.