[f. BRAKE sb.4] intr. To attend to a winding engine. Hence Braking vbl. sb.

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1857.  Smiles, Stephenson, iii. 17. Paying some attention to the art of brakeing. Ibid. (1862), Engineers, III. 32. Young Stephenson couldn’t brake, and … never would learn to brake, he was so clumsy.

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