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free-running

free-running adjective: moving freely and smoothly.

Adjective

free-running (comparative freer-running, superlative freest-running)

  1. Moving freely and smoothly.
    • As to any suggestion that Stroudley's engines were not free-running at high speed, this was of little moment with 60 m.p.h. laid down as the limit at that time.1941 May, “Notes and News: William Stroudley”, in Railway Magazine, page 234
    • It is the Bulleid Pacifics of the Southern Region, which all observers of locomotive performance know to be among the freest running engines in the country.1961 November, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Trains Illustrated, page 684

Forms of free-running

comparativefreer-running
superlativefreest-running

Questions about free-running

What does free-running mean?
Free-running means moving freely and smoothly.
What part of speech is free-running?
Free-running is an adjective.

Words near free-running in the dictionary

  1. free-roam
  2. free-roamed
  3. free-roaming
  4. free-roams
  5. free-rode
  6. free-running
  7. free-sheet
  8. free-sheets
  9. Free-Silverism
  10. Free-Soiler
  11. Free-Soilers

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