Rimpull

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The amount of tractive force located where the driving wheels contact the surface on which they travel.

    "With the double-reduction hubs we were double the available wheel power, or rimpull, so we should have been able to double the load."

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"With the double-reduction hubs we were double the available wheel power, or rimpull, so we should have been able to double the load."

Etymology

From rim (“of a wheel”) + pull (noun).

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