Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The arm or handle of a pump, more particularly that form which has a horizontal hand-piece at the end of a lever. See
brake .
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Examples
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Martin -- man of iron -- staggered weakly around among the rest and struck them with a pump-brake, keeping them at work.
"Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea Morgan Robertson 1888
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He handed Foster his pump-brake, and they shipped them in the hand-pump.
The Wreck of the Titan or, Futility Morgan Robertson 1888
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Running to the nearest clump, he bent down and hurriedly cut off two, each as large as a pump-brake.
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