What is the meaning of BRAKE. Phrases containing BRAKE
See meanings and uses of BRAKE!Slangs & AI meanings
Set brakes on moving train
Engineer blows one long and three short blasts for the brakeman to protect rear of train
Air brake, also called windjammer
Freight brakeman
Air brakes
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
Three-foot hickory stick used by freight trainmen to tighten hand brakes. Sometimes called sap or staff of ignorance
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"
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
Brakeman who fails to see signals
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)
Brakeman, occupant of caboose. Shacks master is a conductor SHAKE 'EM UP-Switching
Shoe placed on rail in hump yard to stop cars with defective brakes
Climax type of geared locomotive. Also applied to trolley car without brakes because of the motion of its brake handle
Pipe that carries compressed air to operate air brakes
Same as brake club; also called the staff of ignorance. To set hand brakes is to sap up some binders
Uncomplimentary term referring to yard or road brakemen and students in train service
Brakeman's or switchman's lantern
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
Putting on air brakes in emergency
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Slangs & AI derived meanings
Root beer
Carjun is Dorset slang for an accordian.
Adj. Pregnant. A corruption of the word pregnant.
Qua^n Ca~nh. Vietnamese equivalent of an American MP.
Please Send Tell. When someone uses this abbreviation, they want you to whisper them if you want to participate in whatever event they're holding. For example, DK/Temp LFM FG, PST! (Dragonknight and Templar Looking for Players for Fungal Grotto, Please Send Tell!)
Door to door is bingo rhyming slang for four.
On the ties, as a derailed train
excellent, awesome, outstanding
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n.
The man in charge of the winding (or hoisting) engine for a mine.
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.
n.
A continuous marginal covering of sporangia, in certain ferns, as in the common brake, or the cup-shaped processes of the filmy ferns.
v. t.
A large, heavy harrow for breaking clods after plowing; a drag.
n.
A car used on freight or construction trains for brakemen, workmen, etc.; a tool car.
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.
v. t.
A device for checking motion, or for measuring friction. See Brake, n. 9 & 10.
n.
A device for grasping or holding anything; a brake to stop a wheel.
n.
A man in charge of a brake or brakes.
n.
The part of a railroad car brake which presses upon the wheel to retard its motion.
n.
See Brakeman.
v. t.
A cart or carriage without a body, used in breaking in horses.
n.
A kind of hydraulic brake for regulating the action of pumping engines and other machines; -- sometimes called dashpot.
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A kind of brake or shoe for a wagon wheel.
v. t.
An ancient instrument of torture.
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of Brakeman
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Full of brakes; abounding with brambles, shrubs, or ferns; rough; thorny.
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.
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