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Bramah
(properly ˈbræmə, often ˈbrɑːmə)
Attrib. or syntactical use of the name of Joseph Bramah (1749–1814), designating machines, etc. invented by him, as Bramah-key (also short Bramah) Bramah-lock, Bramah-pen; Bramah's press, a hydraulic machine constructed to produce enormous pressure.
1836Dickens Sk. Boz ii. (1850) 166 Testing the influence of their patent Bramahs over the street-door locks to which they belonged. 1875Ure Dict. Arts III. 140 The Bramah lock has been long celebrated. 1846G. Wright Cream Sci. Knowl. 55 Bramah's press..is on the principle of the hydrostatic bellows. |