footbreak

Updated: May 27, 2025

There was some clutch or fastening which could be fixed or loosed at will to make the drum turn with the tread-wheel, or let it run free, and a footbreak to lower the bucket fast or slow, or stop it altogether. 'I will get into the bucket, Elzevir said, turning to me, 'and this good man will lower me gently by the break until I reach the string-end down below.

John Meade Falkner - Moonfleet

Then when that was done, and it took me a good hour to complete the task, I discovered, on restarting the car, that a further misfortune had befallen us. Either owing to the jumping of the car when the tyre went, or more likely because of the sudden application, the footbreak had seized, and the transmission was so far injured that I could not get the car along above seven or eight miles an hour.

G. Sidney Paternoster - The Motor Pirate