1. handbrake - Noun
2. handbrake - Verb
(mechanical engineering, automotive, rail transport) A brake in a vehicle, set by hand, and usually locking on until released by hand, enabling its use when parked.
(mechanical engineering, automotive, rail transport) 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.
handbrake (third-person singular simple present handbrakes, present participle handbraking, simple past and past participle handbraked)
To apply the handbrake in a vehicle.
Another put: 'So the instructor went to inspect the damage without asking the learner to put the handbrake on and then turn off the engine. Source: Internet
Eak said the couple had gone to pay their respects at the Sadet Tia Shrine on Leam Phu Jao when, coming down the hill, the brakes on his Honda Civil failed and he had to use the handbrake to stop the car. Source: Internet
A young Castlebar man who was spotted pulling handbrake turns in the town was lucky not to be put off the road, a district court judge told him. Source: Internet
For those who have to place it on the windscreen, low down to the right or left hand side out of general view is safer and with the wire not trailing across the wheel and handbrake. Source: Internet
Handbrake tends to favor CPUs with more cores and threads, and we see that familiar pattern: Core i7-8700K (the second orange bar, below) hanging right there with the 8-core CPUs, rather than with the 6-core chips. Source: Internet
‘The driver of the stolen car suddenly executed a handbrake turn and spun around in the opposite direction, causing the driver of the police car to brake hard to avoid a collision.’ Source: Internet