drum brake

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   hydraulic brake in which friction is applied to the inside of a spinning drum by the brake shoe

   Broaderhydraulic brake

   Partsbrake drumbrake shoe

Questions about drum brake

What does drum brake mean?

drum brake means "hydraulic brake in which friction is applied to the inside of a spinning drum by the brake shoe".

Is drum brake a common word?

drum brake 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.