A restraint provided when the brake linings are moved hydraulically against the brake drum to retard the wheel's rotation.
1 A brake shoe key does this nicely.
2 The trio had to ask local shoemakers to replace the leather brake shoe linings from time to time.
3 The brake pedal popped, went loose, and sparks jumped from the brake shoes .
4 I could see the train and hear the brake shoes squealing as it slowed.
5 To lock the brake shoes upon the wheels might easily throw the locomotive off the rails.
6 By then I'd roughed up Dolly's brake shoes , but had avoided a fishtail as the car stopped.
7 Brake shoes , gaskets, radiator hoses, and such.
8 His 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.
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