rimpull

English

Etymology

From rim (“of a wheel”) +‎ pull (noun).

Noun

rimpull (plural rimpulls)

1. The amount of tractive force located where the driving wheels contact the surface on which they travel.
   • 2000, Bob Foster, Birdum or Bust!, Henley Beach, SA: Seaview Press, page 180:

     With the double-reduction hubs we were double the available wheel power, or rimpull, so we should have been able to double the load.