brakeage

English

Etymology

From brake +‎ -age.

Noun

brakeage (uncountable)

1. 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.