Brakes
[brek]
Examples
- The lower levels of the Mesozoic land were no doubt covered by great fern brakes and shrubby bush and a kind of jungle growth of trees. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- To stop the locomotive, the armature circuit was opened by the main switch, stopping the flow of current, and then brakes were applied by long levers. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The cars would be all right with their good metal-to-metal brakes and anyway, coming down, they would not be loaded. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- To your brakes and caves, ye outlawed thieves! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- All of the parts of the bicycle have come in for a share of attention at the hands of inventors, differential speed gears and brakes having received especial attention. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Air brakes and self-opening and self-closing doors on cars are operated by means of compression pumps. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Suddenly there was the sound of the brakes and the shutting off of a motor-car. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He also found a new method of lubricating his carriage axles, his spring frames, the buffers, and the brakes he had built for the trains. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The brakes of furze and fern terminated abruptly round the margin, and the grass was unbroken. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- The sound was like that of fifty brakes, with six blood cattle in each. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
Edited by Jacqueline