BRAKE

BRAKE. A word of various significations, as a large barrow, an enclosure for cattle, &c. ; but the name is probably derived from a hmlw according to Keunetfs definition — "a small plat or parcel of bushes growing by themselves." The Avord is familiar to Shakspereans : " Through bog, through bush, through hralte, through briar." See Halliwell in voc.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.