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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

... and then men with no hats on; and then women and girls, with their hair half down. The fire-bells began to ring, and in less than five minutes both the fire companies were on the shore, with the men at the brakes and the foremen of the companies ...

— The Flight of Pony Baker - A Boy's Town Story • W. D. Howells

... see that the strait-jacket was brought into requisition. When your generosity train dashes recklessly beyond regulation schedules of safety, I must discharge engineer sympathy, and whistle down the brakes. What new hobby do you intend that I ...

— At the Mercy of Tiberius • August Evans Wilson

... this affair, was not that "Dodd" had been to the play-house seven times, but that he had been there clandestinely. When a person begins to sneak about anything, he is on the down grade to perdition, and the brakes are all off. ...

— The Evolution of Dodd • William Hawley Smith

... now perceived that the main body of the building was concealed in a sort of cleft or small deserted quarry, whilst its roof, irregularly covered over with mosses and wild plants, was sufficiently harmonized with the surrounding brakes, and in some places actually interlaced with them, effectually to prevent all suspicion of human neighbourhood. At this moment a slight covering of snow assisted the disguise: and in summer time a thicket of wild cherry trees, woven into a sort of fortification by an undergrowth of nettles, ...

— Walladmor: - And Now Freely Translated from the German into English. - In Two Volumes. Vol. I. • Thomas De Quincey

... in the "tube" could not stand up at the side, and so they hurried back. It was a terrible race. The "Wild Irishman" whistling and roaring, hissing and straining at the brakes close behind; in front only a few yards to the station, but such long yards! On came the train, and just as the gentleman rushed from the "tube" and dragged the lady down, the express came out grinding and growling. ...

— Little Folks - A Magazine for the Young (Date of issue unknown) • Various

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