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handbrakes

handbrakes is the plural of handbrake.

Meaning of handbrake

Noun

handbrake (plural handbrakes)

  1. A brake in a vehicle, set by hand, and usually locking on until released by hand, enabling its use when parked.
    • On arrival at Spiez, the locomotive (No. 206) was immediately uncoupled and drew ahead to enable an Italian through coach from Interlaken to Milan to be loose shunted (with passengers aboard and controlled by means of its handbrake) on to the front of the train.1953 August, J. G. Click, “The Lötschberg Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 515
  2. The mechanism, particularly the locking hand-operated lever or foot-operated toggle lever in a motorcar or the hand-operated crank on a railcar, which is used to set and release such a brake.

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Questions about handbrakes

What is handbrakes the plural of?
Handbrakes is the plural of handbrake.

Words near handbrakes in the dictionary

  1. handbra
  2. handbrake
  3. handbrake turn
  4. handbrake turns
  5. handbraked
  6. handbrakes
  7. handbraking
  8. handbras
  9. handbreadth
  10. handbreadths
  11. handbuilding

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