BRAKE


Meaning of BRAKE in English

n. & v.

n. 1 a toothed instrument used for crushing flax and hemp. 2 (in full brake harrow) a heavy kind of harrow for breaking up large lumps of earth.

v.tr. crush (flax or hemp) by beating it.

[ ME, rel. to BREAK(1) ]

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