Air brake () A railway brake operated by condensed air. |
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 |
Spindle (n.) The long, round, slender rod or pin in spinning wheels by which the thread is twisted, and on which, when twisted, it is wound |
Spindle (n.) A slender rod or pin on which anything turns |
Spindle (n.) The shaft, mandrel, or arbor, in a machine tool, as a lathe or drilling machine, etc., which causes the work to revolve, or carries a tool or center, etc. |
Spindle (n.) The vertical rod on which the runner of a grinding mill turns. |
Spindle (n.) A shaft or pipe on which a core of sand is formed. |
Spindle (n.) The fusee of a watch. |
Spindle (n.) A long and slender stalk resembling a spindle. |
Spindle (n.) A yarn measure containing, in cotton yarn, 15,120 yards |
Spindle (n.) A solid generated by the revolution of a curved line about its base or double ordinate or chord. |
Spindle (n.) Any marine univalve shell of the genus Rostellaria |
Spindle (n.) Any marine gastropod of the genus Fusus. |
Spindle (v. i.) To shoot or grow into a long, slender stalk or body |
Spindle-legged (a.) Having long, slender legs. |
Spindle-shanked (a.) Having long, slender legs. |
Spindle-shaped (a.) Having the shape of a spindle. |
Spindle-shaped (a.) Thickest in the middle, and tapering to both ends |
forest goat spindle horn Pseudoryx nghetinhensis | cow-like creature with the glossy coat of a horse and the agility of a goat and the long horns of an antelope, characterized as a cow that lives the life of a goat |
airbrake dive brake | a small parachute or articulated flap to reduce the speed of an aircraft |
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 brake | hydraulic brake in which friction is applied to the inside of a spinning drum by the brake shoe |
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 |
spike spindle | any holding device consisting of a rigid, sharp-pointed object, the spike pierced the receipts and held them in order |
spindle | a stick or pin used to twist the yarn in spinning |
spindle mandrel mandril arbor | any of various rotating shafts that serve as axes for larger rotating parts |
spindle | a piece of wood that has been turned on a lathe, used as a baluster, chair leg, etc. |
spindle | (biology) tiny fibers that are seen in cell division, the fibers radiate from two poles and meet at the equator in the middle, chromosomes are distributed by spindles in mitosis and meiosis |
stoplight brake light | a red light on the rear of a motor vehicle that signals when the brakes are applied to slow or stop |
brake failure | brakes fail to stop a vehicle |
brake | an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant |
Celastraceae family Celastraceae spindle-tree family staff-tree family | trees and shrubs and woody vines usually having brightolored fruits |
spindle tree spindleberry spindleberry tree | any shrubby trees or woody vines of the genus Euonymus having showy usually reddish berries |
common spindle tree Euonymus europaeus | small erect deciduous shrub having tough white wood and cathartic bark and fruit |
winged spindle tree Euonymous alatus | bushy deciduous shrub with branches having thin wide corky longitudinal wings, brilliant red in autumn, northeastern Asia to central China |
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 |
brake | cause to stop by applying the brakes, brake the car before you go into a curve |
brake | stop travelling by applying a brake, We had to brake suddenly when a chicken crossed the road |
spindle-legged spindle-shanked | having long slender legs |
fusiform spindle-shaped cigar-shaped | tapering at each end |