The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.]
(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.
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A thicket; a place overgrown with shrubs and brambles, with undergrowth and ferns, or with canes.
Rounds rising hillocks, brakes obscure and rough, To shelter thee from tempest and from rain.
--Shak.He stayed not for brake, and he stopped not for stone.
--Sir W. Scott.Cane brake, a thicket of canes. See Canebrake.
Wiktionary
n. a dense thicket of sugar-canes.
Usage examples of "cane brake".
Maybe you can walk five or six thousand miles through swamps, and sink holes, and cane brake.
The birds vanished into a cane brake, pursued by a clutch of pale foxes.
He pushes through a tattery gap in the veil moss hanging from the groping boughs, skids down a dirt track on a steep, tree-clenched bank, and bratdes through a cane brake.
When he rolled into a cane brake, he wiped the sergeant's blood off his face.
Under Capricorn, two negro lovers, daring the wild beasts and evil spirits, for love of one another, crouched together in a cane brake where the fire-flies hovered.