Defn: An apparatus for testing the power of a steam engine, or other motor, by weighing the amount of friction that the motor will overcome; a friction brake.
11. A cart or carriage without a body, used in breaking in horses.
12. An ancient instrument of torture. Holinshed. Air brake. See Air
brake, in the Vocabulary.
— Brake beam or Brake bar, the beam that connects the brake blocks
of opposite wheels.
— Brake block. (a) The part of a brake holding the brake shoe. (b)
A brake shoe.
— Brake shoe or Brake rubber, the part of a brake against which the
wheel rubs.
— Brake wheel, a wheel on the platform or top of a car by which
brakes are operated.
— Continuous brake . See under Continuous.
BRAKEMAN
Brake"man, n.; pl. Brakemen (.
1. (Railroads)
Defn: A man in charge of a brake or brakes.
2. (Mining)
Defn: The man in charge of the winding (or hoisting) engine for a mine.
BRAKY
Brak"y, a.
Defn: Full of brakes; abounding with brambles, shrubs, or ferns;
rough; thorny.
In the woods and braky glens. W. Browne.