BRAKE

Definition of BRAKE

  1. (verb)stop travelling by applying a brake
  2. (verb)cause to stop by applying the brakes
  3. (noun)a restraint used to slow or stop a vehicle
  4. (noun)any of various ferns of the genus Pteris having pinnately compound leaves and including several popular houseplants
  5. (noun)large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan
  6. (noun)an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant
  7. (noun)anything that slows or hinders a process