单词 | brake shoe |
释义 | brake shoenouna rigid plate, usually of steel in the shape of an arc of a cylinder, coated on the outside of its curved surface with a friction-producing material and tightened against the inside of a brake drum to produce a braking action. (on a bicycle) one of two metal blocks holding rubber pads that, when the hand brake is activated, press against the rotating wheel to produce a braking action.Compare caliper (def. 6). Also called shoe. Origin of brake shoeAn Americanism dating back to 1870–75 Words nearby brake shoebrakeman, brake pad, brake parachute, brake pedal, braker, brake shoe, brakesman, brake-van, brake wheel, braking distance, braking time Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 British Dictionary definitions for brake shoebrake shoe nounthe curved metal casting to which the brake lining is riveted in a drum brake the curved metal casting together with the attached brake lining Sometimes shortened to: shoe Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 |
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