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Definition of Foot brake
1. Noun. Hydraulic brake operated by pressing on a foot pedal.
Definition of Foot brake
1. Noun. The pedal in a motor car which operates the brakes when depressed by the foot. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Foot Brake
Literary usage of Foot brake
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dyke's Automobile and Gasoline Engine Encyclopedia by Andrew Lee Dyke (1920)
"*The foot brake is applied by pressing on a foot pedal (16) and is the one ...
The usual method of connecting the running, service or foot brake is by a ..."
2. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1910)
"... shaft Cross-bar of equalizing link for equalizing pressure on foot-brakes
Equalizing link rods to which are attached levers 83 on foot-brake tubes 84, ..."
3. The Modern Gasoline Automobile: Its Design, Construction, Operation and by Victor Wilfred Pagé (1917)
"Before applying the foot brake, ... released by pressing the clutch pedal forward
into its neutral position and applying the foot brake slowly, but firmly, ..."
4. The Horseless Age (1909)
"In this regard it might be well to say that the coupling of the foot brake and
clutch is not, in the writer's opinion, a desirable feature on a car, ..."
5. The Mechanical Engineering of Collieries by Cornelius McLeod Percy (1882)
"58 for winding and hauling engines are the foot brake and steam brake with ...
As regards the foot brake, it answers well where the amount of work is light ..."
6. Self-propelled Vehicles: A Practical Treatise on the Theory, Construction by James Edward Homans (1904)
"It is fixed on a shaft having a small finger interlocking the foot brake lever
on the right of the steering post, so, that, when the clutch pedal is pressed ..."
7. The Car of 1912 by Locomobile Company of America (1911)
"The foot brake. This is ordinarily used in stopping the car and is engaged by
operating a push pedal with Distance Rod and Internal Brake ..."
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