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sledge brakes

sledge brakes is the plural of sledge brake.

Meaning of sledge brake

Noun

sledge brake (plural sledge brakes)

  1. (historical) An early type of track brake where a block or shoe was pressed against a rail.
    • Furzebrook Railway (Dorset) wagon No. 28, with sledge brake, now preserved at the Narrow Gauge Railway Museum at Towyn Wharf Station1958 September, “Talyllyn Railway and Museum”, in Railway Magazine, page 627, image caption

Questions about sledge brakes

What is sledge brakes the plural of?
Sledge brakes is the plural of sledge brake.

Words near sledge brakes in the dictionary

  1. Sledds
  2. sledful
  3. sledfuls
  4. sledge
  5. sledge brake
  6. sledge brakes
  7. sledge chair
  8. sledge chairs
  9. sledge hammer
  10. sledge hammers
  11. sledge hockey

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