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track brake

American  

noun

  1. a mechanism that slows or stops a vehicle by pressing against the track rather than the wheels.


Etymology

Origin of track brake

First recorded in 1900–05

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Screaming through the corners of the half-mile-long track, brake temperatures climbed well past the thousand-degree mark, and the rotors began to glow.

From The New Yorker Nov. 20, 2015

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