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| 1. | fren | bilar |
Böjningsformer
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break - imperfekt (arkaistisk)
Definitioner
Substantiv
- A thicket, or an area overgrown with briers etc.
- A tool used for breaking flax or hemp.
- A fern; bracken.
- (obsolete) A cage.
- (military) An ancient engine of war analogous to the crossbow and ballista.
- (now historical) A type of torture instrument.
- (obsolete) The winch of a crossbow.
- A type of machine for bending sheet metal. (See wikipedia.)
- (chiefly nautical) The handle of a pump.
- A large, heavy harrow for breaking clods after ploughing; a drag.
- 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.
- The act of braking, of using a brake to slow down a machine or vehicle
- (engineering) An apparatus for testing the power of a steam engine or other motor by weighing the amount of friction that the motor will overcome; a friction brake.
- (figuratively) Something used to retard or stop some action, process etc.
- A baker's kneading trough.
- A device used to confine or prevent the motion of an animal.
- A frame for confining a refractory horse while the smith is shoeing him.
- An enclosure to restrain cattle, horses, etc.
- A cart or carriage without a body, used in breaking in horses.W
- A carriage for transporting shooting parties and their equipment.W
- That part of a carriage, as of a movable battery, or engine, which enables it to turn.
Verb
- (transitive) To bruise and crush; to knead
- (intransitive) To operate (a) brake(s).
- (intransitive) To be stopped or slowed (as if) by braking.
- (transitive) To pulverise with a harrow
Exempel
- He halts, and searches with his eyes
- Among the scatter'd rocks:
- And now at distance can discern
- A stirring in a brake of fern [...]
- Rounds rising hillocks, brakes obscure and rough, / To shelter thee from tempest and from rain.
- He stayed not for brake, and he stopped not for stone.
- The farmer's son brakes the flax while mother brakes the bread dough
- He was shooting, and the field where the [cock-fighting] ring was verged on the shooting-brake where the rabbits were.
- A horse[...]which Philip had bought[...]and because of his fierceness kept him within a brake of iron bars.
- It had been arranged as part of the day's programme that Mr. Cooke was to drive those who wished to go over the Rise in his new brake.
- A few moments later they heard the sound of an engine, and a muddy shooting brake appeared on the road behind them.
- Methods of applying pain were many and ingenious, in particular the ways of twisting, stretching and manipulating the body out of shape, normally falling under the catch-all term of the rack, or the brakes.
- And all the people brake off the golden earrings [...]
Böjningsformer