a restraint used to slow or stop a vehicle

any of various ferns of the genus Pteris having pinnately compound leaves and including several popular houseplants

large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan

[ Syn: bracken , pasture brake , pteridium aquilinum ]

an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant

anything that slows or hinders a process; she wan not ready to put the brakes on her life with a marriage; new legislation will put the brakes on spending'

stop travelling by applying a brake; We had to brake suddenly when a chicken crossed the road'

cause to stop by applying the brakes; brake the car before you go into a curve'