(also in pl) a device for slowing down or stopping a vehicle, usu by friction against the wheels

something that slows down or stops movement or activity

to operate, manage, or apply a brake, esp on a vehicle

said of a vehicle: to become slowed by a brake

to slow or stop (a vehicle) using a brake

a thicket

This green plot shall be our stage, this hawthorn brake our tiring-house — Shakespeare

an area of overgrown rough or marshy land

an open horse-drawn four-wheeled carriage

= shooting brake

a toothed instrument used for crushing flax and hemp

(also brake harrow) a machine formerly used for breaking up large clumps of earth