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Definition of Brake shoe

1. Noun. A restraint provided when the brake linings are moved hydraulically against the brake drum to retard the wheel's rotation.

Definition of Brake shoe

1. Noun. An element of a drum brake into which the friction-producing brake lining is attached. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Brake Shoe

Literary usage of Brake shoe

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Car-builder's Dictionary: An Illustrated Vocabulary of Terms which by Master Car-Builders' Association, Matthias Nace Forney, Arthur Mellen Wellington, Leander Garey, Calvin A. Smith (1906)
"A casting attached to a brake beam which carries a detachable brake shoe, which see. See Christie brake shoe and below. Brake Head and Shoe (M. С. В. ..."

2. Electric Railway Handbook: A Reference Book of Practice Data, Formulas and by Albert Sutton Richey, William Charles Greenough (1915)
"... when the brake-shoe pressure is 2808 Ib., 16 per cent, when the brake-shoe pressure is 6840 Ib. c. Shoes shall develop upon the steel-tired wheel, ..."

3. Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers by American Institute of Electrical Engineers (1904)
"A relative movement of the track-brake-shoe to the left is obviously accompanied by application of the wheel-brake-shoes through corresponding movement of ..."

4. The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography: Being the History of the by James Terry White (1895)
"He was president of the Consolidated brake shoe company for many years, and is now (1893) vice-president of the rich manufacturing concern known as the ..."

5. The Science of Railways by Marshall Monroe Kirkman (1909)
"16 per cent when the brake shoe ... connection with the brake shoe problem tile following outline of its development is ... brake shoe and Foundry Co. ..."

6. Transactions by American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1916)
"Another point which cannot be ignored is that the use of the clasp brake is economical in brake shoe material. A series of road tests of brake shoes shows a ..."

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