a restraint used to slow or stop a vehicle | an unexpected slide |
anything that slows or hinders a process | one of a pair of planks used to make a track for rolling or sliding objects |
an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant | a restraint provided when the brake linings are moved hydraulically against the brake drum to retard the wheel's rotation |
large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan | |
any of various ferns of the genus Pteris having pinnately compound leaves and including several popular houseplants | |