brakeage
nounEtymology From brake + -age.
1
The braking of a vehicle.
- 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, […]1883, The Railway Engineer, volume 4, page 253:
- […] will begin to move slowly backward, reversing the motion of the motor, the compression of which affords some brakeage.1985, Robert Thompson Sloss, The Book of the Automobile, page 210: