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Hand-brake   Listen
noun
hand-brake, handbrake  n.  A brake operated by hand, used to stop a vehicle or keep it stationary; it usually operates by a mechanical linkage.
Synonyms: handbrake, emergency, emergency brake, parking brake.






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"Hand-brake" Quotes from Famous Books



... were on the opposite side of the boiler from the door of the fire box, and mounted independently; the motion of the piston was communicated by means of a crank shaft and toothed wheels to the driving axle. The wheels were coupled. A regulator, injector, and a hand-brake were placed at each end, so that the engine driver could always stand in the front, whichever was the direction in which the engine moved; and there was a platform of communication between the two ends, carried along one side ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 530, February 27, 1886 • Various



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