brakeage
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]brakeage (uncountable)
- The braking of a vehicle.
- 1883, The Railway Engineer, volume 4, page 253:
- That for trains of more than 16 carriages the energy of the brakes at the beginning of the brakeage decreased rapidly beyond the sixteenth carriage, which led to the conclusion […] that the electromagnet employed did not yet present a sufficient resistance, […]
- 1985, Robert Thompson Sloss, The Book of the Automobile, page 210:
- […] will begin to move slowly backward, reversing the motion of the motor, the compression of which affords some brakeage.