3. A baker's kneading though. Johnson.
4. A sharp bit or snaffle. Pampered jades . . . which need nor break nor bit. Gascoigne.
5. A frame for confining a refractory horse while the smith is shoeing him; also, an inclosure to restrain cattle, horses, etc. A horse . . . which Philip had bought . . . and because of his fierceness kept him within a brake of iron bars. J. Brende.
6. That part of a carriage, as of a movable battery, or engine, which enables it to turn.
7. (Mil.)
Defn: An ancient engine of war analogous to the crossbow and ballista.
8. (Agric.)
Defn: A large, heavy harrow for breaking clods after plowing; a drag.
9. A piece of mechanism for retarding or stopping motion by friction, as of a carriage or railway car, by the pressure of rubbers against the wheels, or of clogs or ratchets against the track or roadway, or of a pivoted lever against a wheel or drum in a machine.
10. (Engin.)