brakeload
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]brakeload (plural brakeloads)
- Enough to fill a brake (type of carriage).
- Synonym: brakeful
- 1906, Denis Crane, James Flanagan: The Story of a Remarkable Career, page 176:
- When it was a village or a country town that he visited, all the countryside sent its brakeloads of eager hearers.