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strap brakes

strap brakes is the plural of strap brake.

Meaning of strap brake

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

Questions about strap brakes

What is strap brakes the plural of?
Strap brakes is the plural of strap brake.

Words near strap brakes in the dictionary

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

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