[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

brake \brake\, n. oe. brake fern; cf. as. bracce fern, lg.
   brake willow bush, da. bregne fern, g. brach fallow; prob.
   orig. the growth on rough, broken ground, fr. the root of e.
   break. see break, v. t., cf. bracken, and 2d brake, n.
   1913 webster
   1. bot. a fern of the genus pteris, esp. the pteris
      aquilina, common in almost all countries. it has solitary
      stems dividing into three principal branches. less
      properly: any fern.
      1913 webster

   2. a thicket; a place overgrown with shrubs and brambles,
      with undergrowth and ferns, or with canes.
      1913 webster

            rounds rising hillocks, brakes obscure and rough,
            to shelter thee from tempest and from rain. --shak.
      1913 webster

            he stayed not for brake, and he stopped not for
            stone.                                --sir w.
                                                  scott.
      1913 webster

   cane brake, a thicket of canes. see canebrake.
      1913 webster
see also:
break bracken brake pteris pteris aquilina cane brake 
canebrake 

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Sugar Cane >> S Words
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