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English
Adjective
free-running (comparative freer running, superlative freest running)
- (of a mechanism) Moving freely and smoothly.
1941 May, “Notes and News: William Stroudley”, in Railway Magazine, page 234: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.
1961 November, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Trains Illustrated, page 684: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.
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