brake shoe

1. 1.

   a restraint provided when the brake linings are moved hydraulically against the brake drum to retard the wheel's rotation

   Synonymsshoeskid

   Broaderrestraint

   Part ofdrum brake

   Partsbrake lining

Questions about brake shoe

What does brake shoe mean?

brake shoe means "a restraint provided when the brake linings are moved hydraulically against the brake drum to retard the wheel's rotation".

What is another word for brake shoe?

Close synonyms include shoe, skid. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is brake shoe a common word?

brake shoe is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.