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Bremse.

brake, device for causing deceleration

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Meaning & usage

noun/ˈbʁɛmzə/
  1. brake, device for causing deceleration

    feminine
  2. any kind of clamp that restricts movement

    archaic · feminine
  3. any kind of clamp that restricts movement in particular, a twitch wherewith particularly in veterinary medicine body parts of a beast (face, testicles etc.) are pinched to perform surgical or similar operations

    archaic · feminine
Where this word comes from

From Middle High German bremse, borrowed from Middle Low German premese (“twitch for horses”), from the verb pramen (“to clamp”), with further origin unclear (DWDS).

noun/ˈbʁɛmzə/
  1. horsefly, breezefly, gadfly (fly of the family Tabanidae)

    feminine
Where this word comes from

From Middle Low German brēmse, borrowed from Old Saxon *brimissa, from *brummōn, from Proto-West Germanic *brummōn (“to buzz, drone”). This form superseded High German Breme (now archaic), from Middle High German breme, from Old High German brema. The form brimissa did exist in Old High German, but both the phonetic development and the attestations prove that it is not the direct source of the modern word.

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