brake shoe

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noun

a rigid plate, usually of steel in the shape of an arc of a cylinder, coated on the outside of its curved surface with a friction-producing material and tightened against the inside of a brake drum to produce a braking action.

(on a bicycle) one of two metal blocks holding rubber pads that, when the hand brake is activated, press against the rotating wheel to produce a braking action.Compare caliper (def. 6).

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Also called shoe.

Origin of brake shoe

An Americanism dating back to 1870–75

Words nearby brake shoe

brakeman, brake pad, brake parachute, brake pedal, braker, brake shoe, brakesman, brake-van, brake wheel, braking distance, braking time

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How to use brake shoe in a sentence

Johnson Welded Products Ohio-based manufacturer of reservoirs for air brake systems.
The 26 Next Hobby Lobbys|Abby Haglage|December 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST
If we begin to see the other as our possession and commodity, our shoe, the shadow of our shadow, is there ever a happy outcome?
Owning Up to Possession’s Downside|Samantha Harvey|December 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST
They seem to belong to us, and then they freely go—behavior very uncharacteristic of a shadow or a shoe.
Owning Up to Possession’s Downside|Samantha Harvey|December 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST
If I say “my shoe,” do I mean it in the same way as “my life,” or “my sister” or “my husband”?
Owning Up to Possession’s Downside|Samantha Harvey|December 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST

And a perfectly amber whisky might as well taste like an old shoe.
Why Natural Color Is So Crucial To Understanding A Whisky’s Flavors||December 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST
They tobogganed down hills without a brake at the imminent peril of their lives.
The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol|William J. Locke
Bondad sua, seor, I'll be sworn there is not one fit to tie the latchet of your shoe in the whole army.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846|Various
I should judge from the streets that not more than one-fourth of the females of Galway belong to the shoe-wearing aristocracy.
Glances at Europe|Horace Greeley
The pig-headed prowler I saw, with my pompon missing from his shoe, and his bonne amie wearing the stolen ring.
The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol|William J. Locke
Buckles were first worn as shoe fastenings in the reign of Charles II.
Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham|Thomas T. Harman and Walter Showell

British Dictionary definitions for brake shoe

brake shoe

noun

the curved metal casting to which the brake lining is riveted in a drum brake

the curved metal casting together with the attached brake lining

Sometimes shortened to: shoe

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