A device used to slow or stop the motion of a wheel or vehicle, as well as the controls or apparatus used to engage such a mechanism.

(chiefly nautical) The handle of a pump.

A baker's kneading trough.

A device used to confine or prevent the motion of an animal, such as a frame for confining a refractory horse, an enclosure to restrain cattle or horses, a cart or carriage used in breaking in horses, or a carriage for transporting shooting parties and their equipment.

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

A fern; bracken (Pteridium).

Any fern in the genus Pteris

A thicket, or an area overgrown with briers etc.

A tool used for breaking flax or hemp.

A type of machine for bending sheet metal. (See wikipedia.)

A large, heavy harrow for breaking clods after ploughing; a drag.

(now historical) A type of torture instrument.

(intransitive) To operate (a) brake(s).

(intransitive) To be stopped or slowed (as if) by braking.

(transitive) To bruise and crush; to knead

(transitive) To pulverise with a harrow