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free wheel en · NOUN
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(alt-of, alternative, attributive, countable, often, uncountable) Alternative form of freewheel (device).
Power is derived from a British United Traction Limited "A"-type 150-h.p. six-cylinder horizontal diesel engine; this drives through a fluid flywheel, and thence through a free wheel unit to a four-speed epicyclic gearbox.
1958 April 14, “Diesel Railbus for British Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 275:
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