brakeload

English

Etymology

brake + load

Noun

brakeload (plural brakeloads)

  1. 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.

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