Wiktionary
n. (alternative spelling of handbrake English)
WordNet
n. a brake operated by hand; usually operates by mechanical linkage [syn: emergency, emergency brake, parking brake]
Usage examples of "hand brake".
Because he never switched off the engine when he pulled onto the shoulder of the highway, he needs only to release the hand brake and shift into drive.
Phillips was out of the car even before Ken could pull the hand brake up and kill the engine.
I shouted, and Dad stopped the milk truck, pulled up the hand brake, and jumped out into the roadside weeds.
This other thing to your left is the hand brake and you use that when you park on a hill.
When he rasped the hand brake up sharply, the sound roused Sandy from a doze.
I stopped the car at the edge of the gentle slope down to the beach, put it in neutral and jerked up on the hand brake.
Pat had his hand on the hand brake and slowly released it to move off.
That was why Pat was using the hand brake with no interior light coming on and no noise of a car door shutting, the pickup would have been very hard to clock.
He switched off the engine, set the hand brake, and got out of the car.