Crossword clues for handbrake
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
handbrake \hand"brake`\, hand-brake \hand"-brake`\n. a brake operated by hand, used to stop a vehicle or keep it stationary; it usually operates by a mechanical linkage.
Syn: handbrake, emergency, emergency brake, parking brake.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context automotive English) A brake#Etymology 4 in a vehicle, set by hand, and usually locking on until released by hand, enabling its use when parked. 2 (context automotive English) The mechanism, particularly the lock#Verbing hand-operated lever in a motor car, which is used to set and release such a brake. vb. To apply the handbrake in a vehicle.
Wikipedia
HandBrake is a free and open-source video transcoder, originally developed in 2003 by Eric Petit (aka "titer" from his SVN repository username) to make ripping a film from a DVD to a data storage device easier. Since then, it has undergone many changes and revisions.
HandBrake is available for Windows, OS X ( Mac), and Ubuntu from its official web site, although it is possible to compile it for Debian, Linux Mint, Fedora, CentOS, or RHEL. HandBrake uses third-party libraries such as x264, FFmpeg, Libav, and FAAC, the last of which is slated for removal due to licensing issues.
Usage examples of "handbrake".
She sat in beside me and I did all the automatic things like switching on the lights and letting off the handbrake, and I drove all the way to Clapham without consciously seeing the road.
The car shot backwards into Wood Lane did a handbrake turn like in the movies and sped away, northwards, fishtailing strips of rubber onto the road.
But never having in the past learned to brake by pedaling backwards as opposed to squeezing a handbrake, slowing down on slopes was an alarming new skill I had to learn rather slowly!
I switched on the motor, pressed the automatic drive button, released the handbrake and gunned the motor so savagely that the rear tyres spun and whined furiously on the loose gravel before getting traction.
But again I had to brake as three men appeared in the little lobby at the end of the hall, using the handbrake a split second ahead of the footbrake pedal and leaning hard so that the bike screeched to a clean sideways halt.
He'll need to learn the handbrake turn, the reverse turn, how to break through a road-block—.
He'll need to learn the handbrake turn, the reverse turn, how to break through a road-block - that kind of thing.
As she watcheda second fire engine did a handbrake turn off the ringroad and surged through the crowd, everything on it thatcould flash or wail doing so.
He stared down at the ruined town, then turned back and started to release the handbrake, as five jet fighters from the new Bedford Falls Airforce Base screamed in formation above him.
Breaching one arm against the steering column, the other on the handbrake, he let the shock roll through him.