brake

brake

noun

Definition of BRAKE

a thick patch of shrubbery, small trees, or underbrush <built a small shelter in the brake to watch for deer>

Synonyms boscage (also boskage), bosk (or bosque), bosquet, brake, brushwood, chaparral, coppice, copse, covert

Related Words canebrake; brush, bush, scrub, scrubland; bramble, jungle, tangle; grove, hedge, stand, woodlot; forest, greenwood, wildwood, wood, woodland