strap brake

English

Noun

strap brake (plural strap brakes)

1. A brake that pulls a strap positioned around a rotating object.
   • 1951 August, P. W. Gentry, “Cliff Railways”, in Railway Magazine, pages 514, 515:

     The cable connecting the cars passed around a headwheel of 7 ft. dia. at the top of the incline, to which was applied a hand-operated strap brake. […] For half a century the railway was worked by water balance, at first with brakesmen on the cars, and later by an operator at the top station using a strap brake on the winding drum.