Brake: alternatives and connections

An instrument composed of bristles, or other like material, set in a suitable back or handle, as of wood, bone, or ivory, and used for various purpos…

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Brush; a thicket or coppice of small trees and shrubs.

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The act of constraining, or the state of being constrained; that which compels to, or restrains from, action; compulsion; restraint; necessity.

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A grove of small growth; a thicket of brushwood; a wood cut at certain times for fuel or other purposes. See Copse.

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A wood of small growth; a thicket of brushwood. See Coppice.

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Long ago.

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3d pers. sing. pres. of Hold, contraction for holdeth.

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The act or process of restraining, or of holding back or hindering from motion or action, in any manner; hindrance of the will, or of any action, phy…

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To close, as an aperture, by filling or by obstructing; as, to stop the ears; hence, to stanch, as a wound.

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A wood or a collection of trees, shrubs, etc., closely set; as, a ram caught in a thicket.

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Sudden or unexpected appearance; an unforeseen occurrence; a sudden occasion.

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A shoe or clog, as of iron, attached to a chain, and placed under the wheel of a wagon to prevent its turning when descending a steep hill; a drag; a…

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Full of brakes; abounding with brambles, shrubs, or ferns; rough; thorny.

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Full of brakes; abounding with brambles, shrubs, or ferns; rough; thorny.

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A brake or fern.

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