A restraint provided when the brake linings are moved hydraulically against the brake drum to retard the wheel's rotation.
1A brake shoe key does this nicely.
2The trio had to ask local shoemakers to replace the leather brake shoe linings from time to time.
3The brake pedal popped, went loose, and sparks jumped from the brake shoes.
4I could see the train and hear the brake shoes squealing as it slowed.
5To lock the brake shoes upon the wheels might easily throw the locomotive off the rails.
6By then I'd roughed up Dolly's brake shoes, but had avoided a fishtail as the car stopped.
7Brake shoes, gaskets, radiator hoses, and such.
8His keen ears caught the whining of brake shoes on wheels and a few minutes later the signal blast for brakes off.
9"Looks like a brake shoe on the new-model hand-cars," he said, swinging it viciously with one hand.
Translations for brake shoe