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BRAKES

6 letters

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Classic 3 pts
Big 3 pts
Super Big 3 pts

BRAKES is a valid 6-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 3 in Classic, 3 in Big, and 3 in Super Big Boggle.

BRAKES root BRAKE-s

Word family

BRAKE 2 BREAK 2 BRAKING 5 BRAKED-d 3
noun
  1. A device used to slow or stop the motion of a wheel, or of a vehicle, usually by friction (although other resistive forces, such as electromagnetic fields or aerodynamic drag, can also be used); 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.
    • You’re pressing the brakes too hard—try just squeezing them.
  2. The act of braking, of using a brake to slow down a machine or vehicle
    • Give the car a quick brake.
  3. 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.
  4. figurativelySomething used to retard or stop some action, process etc.
  5. An ancient engine of war analogous to the crossbow and ballista.
  6. obsoleteThe winch of a crossbow.
  7. The handle of a pump.
  8. A baker’s kneading trough.
  9. A frame for confining a refractory horse while the smith is shoeing it.
  10. An enclosure to restrain cattle, horses, etc.
  11. A cart or carriage without a body, used in breaking in horses.
  12. A carriage for transporting shooting parties and their equipment.
    • shooting-brake
  13. That part of a carriage, as of a movable battery, or engine, which enables it to turn.
  14. countableuncountableAny fern in the genus Pteris.
  15. countableuncountableBracken (Pteridium spp.).
  16. A thicket, or an area overgrown with briers etc.
  17. A type of machine for bending sheet metal. (See wikipedia.)
  18. A large, heavy harrow for breaking clods of earth after ploughing; a drag.
  19. A tool used for breaking flax or hemp.
  20. obsoleteA cage.
  21. historicalA type of torture instrument.
verb
  1. intransitiveTo operate a brake or brakes.
  2. intransitiveTo be stopped or slowed (as if) by braking.
  3. transitiveTo bruise and crush; to knead.
    • The farmer’s son brakes the flax while mother brakes the bread dough
  4. transitiveTo pulverise with a harrow.