strap brake

plural strap brakes

1. A brake that pulls a strap positioned around a rotating object.

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   The cable connecting the cars passed around a headwheel of 7 ft. dia. at the top of the incline, to which was applied a hand-operated strap brake. […] For half a century the railway was worked by water balance, at first with brakesmen on the cars, and later by an operator at the top station using a strap brake on the winding drum.

   1951 August, P. W. Gentry, “Cliff Railways”, in Railway Magazine, pages 514, 515