What is the meaning of BRAKE. Phrases containing BRAKE
See meanings and uses of BRAKE!Slangs & AI meanings
Climax type of geared locomotive. Also applied to trolley car without brakes because of the motion of its brake handle
Air brake, also called windjammer
Shoe placed on rail in hump yard to stop cars with defective brakes
Air brakes
Brakeman, occupant of caboose. Shacks master is a conductor SHAKE 'EM UP-Switching
Brakeman's or switchman's lantern
Three-foot hickory stick used by freight trainmen to tighten hand brakes. Sometimes called sap or staff of ignorance
Putting on air brakes in emergency
Engineer blows one long and three short blasts for the brakeman to protect rear of train
Uncomplimentary term referring to yard or road brakemen and students in train service
Freight brakeman
Automatic air-brake application. Also the draft timbers and drawbar of a car, when extracted by force. If only the drawbar is pulled out, you say, "We got a lung," but if the draft timbers comewith it, you say, "We got the whole damn secret works"
Small valve located near brake wheel for drawing off and holding air on cars. (Retainers often figure prominently in true tales and fiction stories about runaway cars on trains)
Pipe that carries compressed air to operate air brakes
Brakeman who fails to see signals
Set brakes on moving train
v. 1.to stop whatever it is you're doing or are about to do. "I'm bout to go holla at Kianna." " Ay, dawg. Pump yo brakes, she a gold digga."Â
Make a reduction in air in the train's braking system. Put 'er all on means apply emergency brake, more commonly described as big-holing her
Same as brake club; also called the staff of ignorance. To set hand brakes is to sap up some binders
Brakeman. Derived from initial B(ee) of Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, or perhaps from some brakemen's habit of arousing hobos by applying a brake club to the soles of their shoes
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Slangs & AI derived meanings
Semen, or any fluid secreted at orgasm.
Penis. "My girl has the painters in so she played my skin flute for me last night." (i.e. gave him a blow job... i.e. did oral sex!)
Methcathinone
Male prostitute in the area of Picadilly Circus dipped: the acted of having gay sex.
Fooling about, in the sense of messing around or making fun or just being silly. Not terribly polite.
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Spur a horse.
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a.
Full of brakes; abounding with brambles, shrubs, or ferns; rough; thorny.
v. t.
A device for checking motion, or for measuring friction. See Brake, n. 9 & 10.
v. t.
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.
n.
A device for grasping or holding anything; a brake to stop a wheel.
v. t.
A large, heavy harrow for breaking clods after plowing; a drag.
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of Brakeman
n.
Any wheel worked by hand; esp., one the rim of which serves as the handle by which a valve, car brake, or other part is adjusted.
n.
A continuous marginal covering of sporangia, in certain ferns, as in the common brake, or the cup-shaped processes of the filmy ferns.
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A kind of hydraulic brake for regulating the action of pumping engines and other machines; -- sometimes called dashpot.
n.
A car used on freight or construction trains for brakemen, workmen, etc.; a tool car.
v. t.
An ancient instrument of torture.
v. t.
A piece of mechanism for retarding or stopping motion by friction, as of a carriage or railway car, by the pressure of rubbers against the wheels, or of clogs or ratchets against the track or roadway, or of a pivoted lever against a wheel or drum in a machine.
v. t.
A cart or carriage without a body, used in breaking in horses.
n.
A kind of brake or shoe for a wagon wheel.
n.
See Brakeman.
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The man in charge of the winding (or hoisting) engine for a mine.
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A man in charge of a brake or brakes.
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The part of a railroad car brake which presses upon the wheel to retard its motion.
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