Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
brake horse-power .
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Examples
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Flight is checked by the enormous brake-power of outspread tail, and backward beating wing.
My Tropic Isle 2003
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Flight is checked by the enormous brake-power of outspread tail, and backward beating wing.
My Tropic Isle 1887
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Joe Turner and Will Garvie had on full brake-power in a second or two.
The Iron Horse 1859
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