Meaning

2 senses
  1. A brake in a vehicle, set by hand, and usually locking on until released by hand, enabling its use when parked.

    Handbremse

    ручно́й то́рмозručnój tórmoz, ручни́кručník

  2. The mechanism, particularly the locking hand-operated lever or foot-operated toggle lever in a motorcar or the hand-operated crank on a railcar, which is used to set and release such a brake.

Examples

8 sentences
  1. Where's the handbrake in this car?

    ruГде в этой машине ручной тормоз? — marafon

    deWo ist in diesem Auto die Handbremse? — brauchinet

  2. The handbrake lever was just behind the gearstick.

  3. Tom drove through town with his handbrake on, without noticing it.

    deTom fuhr mit angezogener Handbremse durch die Stadt, ohne es zu merken. — raggione

  4. Tom pulls the handbrake.

    deTom zieht die Handbremse. — Esperantostern

  5. Tom pulled the handbrake.

    deTom zog die Handbremse an. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

Translations

8 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
hand-operated brake in a car:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
hand-operated brake in a car:

Origin

From hand + brake.

From hand + brake.

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Forms

plural: handbrakes

Synonyms

1 synonyms

Word family

1 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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