a. [f. BRAKE sb.7 + -LESS.] Not provided with a brake.
1880. Daily Tel., 8 Oct., 5/2. Disasters have befallen brakeless trains.
1886. Elizabeth Robins Pennell, in Century Mag., April, 855/1. Here we were, eight miles from Terni in a lonely mountain road in the evening—the sun had already set—with a brakeless machine.
