Lexicographical Neighbors of Brakeage
Literary usage of Brakeage
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Book of the Automobile: A Practical Volume Devoted to the History by Robert Thompson Sloss (1905)
"... what has happened, the car will begin to move slowly backward, reversing the
motion of the motor, the compression of which affords some brakeage. ..."
2. 135000 Words Spelled and Pronounced (preferred Form): Together with Valuable by John Hendricks Bechtel (1911)
"... a break, brakeage, the action or controlling power of a brake. breezy, blowy;
windy. brisé, a term in heraldry. bret, herring-spawn; the turbot. brett, ..."
3. Reports of the Inspectors of Mines of the Anthracite Coal Regions of by Pennsylvania Inspectors of Mines (1873)
"Brakes attached to drums are of great necessity, and the supplying of proper ami
safe brakeage for drums that are used in operating in shafts, slopes and on ..."
4. Cases Determined in the Supreme Court of Washington by Arthur Remington, Solon Dickerson Williams, Washington (State). Supreme Court (1919)
"... been tampered with by one of his men and so changed that their brakeage power
was insufficient to stop the car and avoid the collision after the train ..."
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