| 单词 | brake shoe |
| 释义 | brake shoe 1. a 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. 2. (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. Cf. caliper (def. 6). Also called shoe. [1870-75, Amer.] |
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