foot brake

a brake that is operated by pressure on a foot pedal, as in an automobile.

Words nearby foot brake

Only it turned out to be the foot-brake after all, and we stopped dead, and skidded into a ditch.

Mike |P. G. Wodehouse
She was running in neutral, the great car coasting, while she tried to slow it by jamming down the foot-brake.

Free Air |Sinclair Lewis
He had the foot-brake well down, and now he threw in the emergency as well.

Dave Porter At Bear Camp |Edward Stratemeyer
But he had hardly got under full headway before he shut off the gasoline and got busy with the foot-brake.

Motor Matt's Mystery |Stanley R. Matthews

"I'll try," returned the youth, and jammed down the foot-brake as hard as he could.

Dave Porter At Bear Camp |Edward Stratemeyer

foot brake

a brake operated by applying pressure to a foot pedal Also called: pedal brake