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brakings

n. (plural of braking English)

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Chapter 14: The Pinching Game i F WE COULD pass through her force field (and we can't quite do this, force fields being strongest round the beautiful and the mad), we would know that her stomach wall hurt and weighed heavily, that she felt occasional drags and brakings of nausea, that all sorts of salmon were bouncing upwards against the stream.

The ride was as smooth as glass-fiber springs and rubber tires could make it, but the two sweating laborers on the pedals were forced to perform a good many swerves and swift brakings in the congested street.