Air brake
() A railway brake operated by condensed air. |
Bass drum
() The largest of the different kinds of drums, having two heads, and emitting a deep, grave sound. See Bass, a. |
Brake
() imp. of Break. |
Brake
(n.) A fern of the genus Pteris, esp. the P. aquilina, common in almost all countries. It has solitary stems dividing into three principal branches. Less properly: Any fern. |
Brake
(n.) A thicket |
Brake
(v. t.) An instrument or machine to break or bruise the woody part of flax or hemp so that it may be separated from the fiber. |
Brake
(v. t.) An extended handle by means of which a number of men can unite in working a pump, as in a fire engine. |
Brake
(v. t.) A baker's kneading though. |
Brake
(v. t.) A sharp bit or snaffle. |
Brake
(v. t.) A frame for confining a refractory horse while the smith is shoeing him |
Brake
(v. t.) That part of a carriage, as of a movable battery, or engine, which enables it to turn. |
Brake
(v. t.) An ancient engine of war analogous to the crossbow and ballista. |
Brake
(v. t.) A large, heavy harrow for breaking clods after plowing |
Brake
(v. t.) A piece of mechanism for retarding or stopping motion by friction, as of a carriage or railway car, by the pressure of rubbers against the wheels, or of clogs or ratchets against the track or roadway, or of a pivoted lever against a wheel or drum in a machine. |
Brake
(v. t.) An apparatus for testing the power of a steam engine, or other motor, by weighing the amount of friction that the motor will overcome |
Brake
(v. t.) A cart or carriage without a body, used in breaking in horses. |
Brake
(v. t.) An ancient instrument of torture. |
Brake
() of Break |
Drum
(n.) An instrument of percussion, consisting either of a hollow cylinder, over each end of which is stretched a piece of skin or vellum, to be beaten with a stick |
Drum
(n.) Anything resembling a drum in form |
Drum
(n.) A sheet iron radiator, often in the shape of a drum, for warming an apartment by means of heat received from a stovepipe, or a cylindrical receiver for steam, etc. |
Drum
(n.) A small cylindrical box in which figs, etc., are packed. |
Drum
(n.) The tympanum of the ear |
Drum
(n.) One of the cylindrical, or nearly cylindrical, blocks, of which the shaft of a column is composed |
Drum
(n.) A cylinder on a revolving shaft, generally for the purpose of driving several pulleys, by means of belts or straps passing around its periphery |
Drum
(n.) See Drumfish. |
Drum
(n.) A noisy, tumultuous assembly of fashionable people at a private house |
Drum
(n.) A tea party |
Drum
(v. i.) To beat a drum with sticks |
Drum
(v. i.) To beat with the fingers, as with drumsticks |
Drum
(v. i.) To throb, as the heart. |
Drum
(v. i.) To go about, as a drummer does, to gather recruits, to draw or secure partisans, customers, etc, |
Drum
(v. t.) To execute on a drum, as a tune. |
Drum
(v. t.) (With out) To expel ignominiously, with beat of drum |
Drum
(v. t.) (With up) To assemble by, or as by, beat of drum |
Drum major
() . |
Drum major
() The chief or first drummer of a regiment |
Drum major
() The marching leader of a military band. |
Drum major
() A noisy gathering. [R.] See under Drum, n., 4. |
drum
drumfish | small to medium-sized bottom-dwelling food and game fishes of shallow coastal and fresh waters that make a drumming noise |
striped drum
Equetus pulcher | a kind of drumfish |
red drum
channel bass
redfish Sciaenops ocellatus | large edible fish found off coast of United States from Massachusetts to Mexico |
| airbrake dive brake | a small parachute or articulated flap to reduce the speed of an aircraft |
bass drum
gran casa | a large drum with two heads, makes a sound of indefinite but very low pitch |
bongo
bongo drum | a small drum, played with the hands |
| brake | a restraint used to slow or stop a vehicle |
| brake | anything that slows or hinders a process, she wan not ready to put the brakes on her life with a marriage, new legislation will put the brakes on spending |
| brake band | a band that can be tightened around a shaft to stop its rotation |
brake cylinder
hydraulic brake cylinder
master cylinder | a cylinder that contains brake fluid that is compressed by a piston |
| brake disk | a disk or plate that is fixed to the wheel, pressure is applied to it by the brake pads |
brake drum
drum | a hollow cast-iron cylinder attached to the wheel that forms part of the brakes |
| brake lining | the lining on the brake shoes that comes in contact with the brake drum |
| brake pad | one of the pads that apply friction to both sides of the brake disk |
| brake pedal | foot pedal that moves a piston in the master brake cylinder |
brake shoe
shoe skid | a restraint provided when the brake linings are moved hydraulically against the brake drum to retard the wheel's rotation |
brake system
brakes | a braking device consisting of a combination of interacting parts that work to slow a motor vehicle |
| coaster brake | a brake on a bicycle that engages with reverse pressure on the pedals |
disk brake
disc brake | hydraulic brake in which friction is applied to both sides of a spinning disk by the brake pads |
drum
membranophone
tympan | a musical percussion instrument, usually consists of a hollow cylinder with a membrane stretched across each end |
| drum metal drum | a cylindrical metal container used for shipping or storage of liquids |
| drum brake | hydraulic brake in which friction is applied to the inside of a spinning drum by the brake shoe |
| drum printer | a line printer in which the type is mounted on a rotating drum that contains a full character set for each printing position |
drum sander
electric sander
sander
smoother | a power tool used for sanding wood, an endless loop of sandpaper is moved at high speed by an electric motor |
| foot brake | hydraulic brake operated by pressing on a foot pedal |
hand brake
emergency
emergency brake
parking brake | a brake operated by hand, usually operates by mechanical linkage |
hydraulic brake
hydraulic brakes | brake system in which a brake pedal moves a piston in the master cylinder, brake fluid then applies great force to the brake pads or shoes |
| power brake | a brake on an automobile that magnifies a small force applied to the brake pedal into a proportionately larger force applied to slow or stop the vehicle |
| shooting brake | another name for a station wagon |
snare drum
snare side drum | a small drum with two heads and a snare stretched across the lower head |
| steel drum | a concave percussion instrument made from the metal top of an oil drum, has an array of flattened areas that produce different tones when struck (of Caribbean origin) |
tenor drum
tom-tom | any of various drums with small heads |
| stoplight brake light | a red light on the rear of a motor vehicle that signals when the brakes are applied to slow or stop |
| drum | the sound of a drum, he could hear the drums before he heard the fifes |
paradiddle
roll drum roll | the sound of a drum (especially a snare drum) beaten rapidly and continuously |
| brake failure | brakes fail to stop a vehicle |
| brake | an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant |
| drum major | the leader of a marching band or drum corps |
drum majorette
majorette | a female drum major |
| drum majorette majorette | a female baton twirler who accompanies a marching band |
rock polypody
rock brake American wall fern
Polypodium virgianum | chiefly lithophytic or epiphytic fern of North America and east Asia |
bracken pasture brake
brake Pteridium aquilinum | large coarse fern often several feet high, essentially weed ferns, cosmopolitan |
Christmas fern
canker brake
dagger fern
evergreen wood fern Polystichum acrostichoides | North American evergreen fern having pinnate leaves and dense clusters of lance-shaped fronds |
| rock brake | dwarf deciduous lithophytic ferns |
American rock brake
American parsley fern
Cryptogramma acrostichoides | rock-inhabiting fern of northern North America growing in massive tufts and having fronds resembling parsley |
cliff brake
cliff-brake
rock brake | any of several small lithophytic ferns of tropical and warm temperate regions |
purple rock brake
Pellaea atropurpurea | very short shallowly creeping North American fern usually growing on cliffs or walls and having dark glossy leaf axes |
| brake | any of various ferns of the genus Pteris having pinnately compound leaves and including several popular houseplants |
spider brake
spider fern Pteris multifida | Asiatic fern introduced in America |
barrel
drum | a bulging cylindrical shape, hollow with flat ends |