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brake wheel
noun
- (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.
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Danforth and the governor took hold of the brake wheel with him, and for a minute or two the terrible speed slackened a little.
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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.
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Another element sometimes employed in arc-lamp mechanism is the brake-wheel regulator.
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He turned then to the brake-wheel, but, before he could apply it, Thomson had risen and grappled with him.
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