handbrake

Alternative forms

 * hand brake

Noun

 * 1)  A brake in a vehicle, set by hand, and usually locking on until released by hand, enabling its use when parked.
 * 2)  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

 * Arabic:
 * Hijazi Arabic: جَلَنْط
 * Bengali: হাত ব্রেক
 * Catalan: fre de mà
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 手掣
 * Mandarin: 手剎,, 手閘
 * Min Nan:
 * Danish: håndbremse
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: handbremsa
 * Italian: freno a mano
 * Japanese: ハンドブレーキ
 * Luxembourgish: Handbrems
 * Macedonian: рачна кочница
 * Norwegian: håndbrekk
 * Persian:
 * Polish: hamulec ręczny
 * Portuguese: freio de mão, travão de mão
 * Russian: ручно́й то́рмоз,
 * Spanish: freno de mano
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: kamay-pigil
 * Turkish:

Verb

 * 1) To apply the handbrake in a vehicle.