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Brakes

noun

1.

A braking device consisting of a combination of interacting parts that work to slow a motor vehicle. Synonym: brake system.

Brake

noun

1.

A restraint used to slow or stop a vehicle.

2.

Any of various ferns of the genus Pteris having pinnately compound leaves and including several popular houseplants.

3.

Large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan. Synonyms: bracken, pasture brake, Pteridium aquilinum.

4.

An area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant.

5.

Anything that slows or hinders a process. "New legislation will put the brakes on spending"

verb

1.

Stop travelling by applying a brake.

2.

Cause to stop by applying the brakes.

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"Brakes" Quotes from Famous Books

... the men chopped out a path through the dense undergrowth and cane-brakes broad enough for a pack-horse. You will be interested to know that this bridle-path was the beginning of the famous "Wilderness Road," as it is still called. Later the narrow trail was widened into a highway for wagons, and it was along this way, rightly called a "wilderness road," that in later ...

— Stories of Later American History • Wilbur F. Gordy

... you see?" explained the Man in Charge. "His 6,000 pounds pushing the machine along from behind there gives us just so much extra speed, and all the brakes in the world won't stop us now we've got going ...

— Andiron Tales • John Kendrick Bangs

... cautioned the father. "Better put on the brakes a bit. Your mom and I think about the same, I guess, that the girl's a likely enough lady and she surely is easy to look at, but she ain't what we'd pick out for you if we had the say. It's like some of these ...

— Amanda - A Daughter of the Mennonites • Anna Balmer Myers

... We advanced; the peasant folk cleared the way sullenly and suspiciously. Then, deliberately, an elderly man started to cross the road, and on the sound of the horn stood stock still, with resentful defiance on his weather-beaten face. McKeogh jammed on the brakes. The car halted. But the infinitesimal fraction of a second before it came to a dead stop the wing over the near front wheel touched the elderly person and down he went on the ground. I leaped from the car, to be instantly surrounded by an infuriated crowd, which seemed to gather from all ...

— The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol • William J. Locke

... ag'in; an' dis time under de leanin'-over bank, whar de cane-brake wus, de roots uf de brake a-hangin' down 'mos' to de water. Now comes de rocks ag'in, as thick as hail. Grabbin' de cane-brakes, up I goes, han' ober han', han' ober han'. De rocks stop flyin'. I looks behin' me to see fur why. Dar goes Black Thunder drivin' 'cross de riber down at de riffle, makin' de water fly befo' him like ...

— Burl • Morrison Heady

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