Attrib. or syntactical use of the name of Joseph Bramah (1748–1814), designating machines, etc. invented by him, as Bramah-key (also short Bramah) -lock, -pen; Bramah’s press, a hydraulic machine constructed to produce enormous pressure.
1836. Dickens, Sk. Boz, ii. (1850), 166. Testing the influence of their patent Bramahs over the street-door locks to which they belonged.
1875. Ure, Dict. Arts, III. 140. The Bramah lock has been long celebrated.
1846. G. Wright, Cream Sci. Knowl., 55. Bramah’s press … is on the principle of the hydrostatic bellows.
