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strap brake

strap brake noun: a brake that pulls a strap positioned around a rotating object.

Noun

strap brake (plural strap brakes)

  1. A brake that pulls a strap positioned around a rotating object.
    • The cable connecting the cars passed around a headwheel of 7 ft. dia. at the top of the incline, to which was applied a hand-operated strap brake. […] For half a century the railway was worked by water balance, at first with brakesmen on the cars, and later by an operator at the top station using a...1951 August, P. W. Gentry, “Cliff Railways”, in Railway Magazine, pages 514, 515

Forms of strap brake

pluralstrap brakes

Questions about strap brake

What does strap brake mean?
Strap brake means a brake that pulls a strap positioned around a rotating object.
What part of speech is strap brake?
Strap brake is a noun.
What is the plural of strap brake?
The plural of strap brake is strap brakes.

Words near strap brake in the dictionary

  1. Stranshams
  2. stranskiite
  3. Stransky
  4. Stranskys
  5. strap
  6. strap brake
  7. strap brakes
  8. strap game
  9. strap games
  10. strap in
  11. strap line

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