braking

Verb (1)

brake (third-person singular simple present brakes, present participle braking, simple past and past participle braked)

1. (intransitive) To operate a brake or brakes.
   • Auxiliaries and ancillaries are comprehensive, and include a Westinghouse motor-driven recriprocating compressor used for locomotive braking and general service air, two rotary exhauster sets for train brakes when hauling passenger or fitted freight trains, and an oil-fired train heating boiler.1950 November, “Mixed-Traffic Diesel-Electric Locomotives for Ireland”, in Railway Magazine, page 781
2. (intransitive) To be stopped or slowed (as if) by braking.

Verb (2)

brake (third-person singular simple present brakes, present participle braking, simple past and past participle braked)

1. (transitive) To bruise and crush; to knead.
   • The farmer’s son brakes the flax while mother brakes the bread dough
2. (transitive) To pulverise with a harrow.

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