of break.

Brake is a name given to fern, or rather to the female fern, a species of cryptogamian plants, of the genus Pteris, whose fructification is in lines under the margin of the leaf or frond.

A place overgrown with brake.

A thicket; a place overgrown with shrubs and brambles.

In the U. States, a thicket of canes, as a cane-brake; but I believe used only in composition.

An instrument to break flax or hemp.

The handle or lever by which a pump is worked; that is, brac, brachium, an arm.

A baker’s kneading trough.

A sharp bit, or snaffle.

A machine for confining refractory horses, while the smith is shoeing them.

That part of the carriage of a movable battery or engine which enables it to turn.

A large heavy harrow for breaking clods after plowing; called also a drag.