brakes

noun

A fern; bracken.

noun

A thicket, or an area overgrown with briers etc.

1. A tool used for breaking flax or hemp.
2. A type of machine for bending sheet metal. (See wikipedia.)
3. A large, heavy harrow for breaking clods after ploughing; a drag.

1. To bruise and crush; to knead

   The farmer's son brakes the flax while mother brakes the bread dough

2. To pulverise with a harrow

1. An ancient engine of war analogous to the crossbow and ballista.
2. The handle of a pump.
3. A device used to slow or stop the motion of a wheel, or of a vehicle, by friction; also, the controls or apparatus used to engage such a mechanism such as the pedal in a car.

   She slammed the brakes when she saw a child run in front of the car.

4. A baker's kneading trough.
5. A device used to confine or prevent the motion of an animal.
6. That part of a carriage, as of a movable battery, or engine, which enables it to turn.

1. To operate (a) brake(s).
2. To be stopped or slowed (as if) by braking.

1. A cage.
2. A type of torture instrument.