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brake wheel

noun

  1. (in a windmill) a bevel gearwheel rotating with the wind shaft.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of brake wheel1

An Americanism dating back to 1870–75

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Example Sentences

The next moment I leaped to my feet, and screwed up the brake wheel, so as to check the pace of the car.

Danforth and the governor took hold of the brake wheel with him, and for a minute or two the terrible speed slackened a little.

The huge man upon the brake wheel paid him no heed, but bawled a profane reprimand for the misplacing of a coil of wire line.

Another element sometimes employed in arc-lamp mechanism is the brake-wheel regulator.

He turned then to the brake-wheel, but, before he could apply it, Thomson had risen and grappled with him.

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