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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

... go down to the 'Little Sea,'" said Theodora; and we descended through the pasture, a large tract of grazing land, partly bushy, overgrown in many places by high, rank brakes, and at length came to a brook, running over a sandy bed. Here at a bend was an artificial pond, formed by a dam, built of stones laid up in a broad wall across the course of the brook. In one place the wall was six or seven feet in height; and through ...

— When Life Was Young - At the Old Farm in Maine • C. A. Stephens

... exactly. I like to see things done decently and in order in the church. It always makes me nervous to get into a church where enthusiasm runs away with the meeting. It makes me feel somewhat as if I were in a trolley car that is running down grade while the motor-man has lost control of the brakes. It makes it uncomfortable to stay ...

— Mr. World and Miss Church-Member • W. S. Harris

... the ancient times the Romans dreaded as the borders of hell. The Tiber rolls close by, yellow and muddy with the black buffaloes descending to its brink to drink, and the snakes and the toads in its brakes counting by millions—sad, always sad, whether swollen by flood in autumn and vomiting torrents of mud, or whether with naked sands and barren bed in summer, with the fever-vapors rising from its shallow ...

— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 26, July 1880. • Various

... that are distinct and distinguished, with lines that suggest the etching-point rather than a brush loaded with paint. Cypresses shaped like flames, tall pines with the abrupt flatness of their tops, thin canes in the brakes, sharp aloes by the road-side, and olives with the delicate acuteness of the leaf—these make keen lines of slender vegetation. And they own the seasons by a gentle confession. Rather than be overpowered ...

— The Rhythm of Life • Alice Meynell

... who had thronged the grassy-bordered paths of the village dwindled in number; the riding and driving on the roads was less and less; the native life showed itself more in the sparsity of the sojourners. The sweet fern in the open fields, and the brakes and blackberry-vines among the bowlders, were blighted with the cold wind; even the sea-weed swaying at the foot of the rocks seemed to feel a sharper chill than that of the brine. A storm came, ...

— The Story of a Play - A Novel • W. D. Howells

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