"strap brake" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "strap brakes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "strap brake (plural strap brakes)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
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        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
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          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1951 August, P. W. Gentry, “Cliff Railways”, in Railway Magazine, pages 514, 515",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A brake that pulls a strap positioned around a rotating object."
      ],
      "id": "en-strap_brake-en-noun-Y1jS2h-f"
    }
  ],
  "word": "strap brake"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "strap brakes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "strap brake (plural strap brakes)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
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        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1951 August, P. W. Gentry, “Cliff Railways”, in Railway Magazine, pages 514, 515",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A brake that pulls a strap positioned around a rotating object."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "strap brake"
}