handbrake

See also: hand brake

English

Alternative forms

• hand brake

Etymology

From hand +‎ brake.

Noun

handbrake (plural handbrakes)

1. (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.
   • 1953 August, J. G. Click, “The Lötschberg Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 515:

     On arrival at Spiez, the locomotive (No. 206) was immediately uncoupled and drew ahead to enable an Italian through coach from Interlaken to Milan to be loose shunted (with passengers aboard and controlled by means of its handbrake) on to the front of the train.

2. (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.

Synonyms

• parking brake

Derived terms

• handbrake turn
• release the handbrake

Translations

hand-operated brake in a car

• Arabic:

  Hijazi Arabic: جَلَنْط m (jalanṭ)

• Bengali: হাত ব্রেক (hat brek)
• Catalan: fre de mà m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 手掣 (sau² zai³)

  Hokkien: 手擋 / 手挡 (zh-min-nan)

  Mandarin: 手剎 / 手刹 (shǒushā), 手剎車 / 手刹车 (zh) (shǒushāchē), 手閘 / 手闸 (shǒuzhá)

• Danish: håndbremse
• Dutch: handrem (nl) f
• Faroese: hondbremsa n
• Finnish: käsijarru (fi), seisontajarru (fi)
• French: frein à main (fr) m
• German: Handbremse (de) f
• Greek: χειρόφρενο (el) n (cheirófreno)
• Hebrew: אמברקס (he) m (ambreks)
• Hungarian: kézifék (hu)
• Icelandic: handbremsa (is) f, handhemill m
• Italian: freno a mano m
• Japanese: ハンドブレーキ (handoburēki)
• Luxembourgish: Handbrems f
• Macedonian: рачна кочница f (račna kočnica)
• Norwegian: håndbrekk n

  Bokmål: håndbrems m, handbrems m, håndbremse m or f, handbremse m or f, håndbrekk n, handbrekk n

  Nynorsk: handbremse f, handbrems m, handbrekk n

• Persian: ترمز دستی (fa) (tormoz dasti)
• Polish: hamulec ręczny m
• Portuguese: freio de mão m (Brazil), travão de mão m (Portugal)
• Russian: ручно́й то́рмоз m (ručnój tórmoz), ручни́к (ru) m (ručník) (colloquial)
• Spanish: freno de mano m
• Swedish: handbroms (sv) c
• Tagalog: kamay-pigil
• Turkish: el freni (tr)
• West Frisian: hânrem c

Verb

handbrake (third-person singular simple present handbrakes, present participle handbraking, simple past and past participle handbraked)

1. To apply the handbrake in a vehicle.