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Gear   /gɪr/   Listen
noun
Gear  n.  
1.
Clothing; garments; ornaments. "Array thyself in thy most gorgeous gear."
2.
Goods; property; household stuff. "Homely gear and common ware."
3.
Whatever is prepared for use or wear; manufactured stuff or material. "Clad in a vesture of unknown gear."
4.
The harness of horses or cattle; trapping.
5.
Warlike accouterments. (Scot.)
6.
Manner; custom; behavior. (Obs.)
7.
Business matters; affairs; concern. (Obs.) "Thus go they both together to their gear."
8.
(Mech.)
(a)
A toothed wheel, or cogwheel; as, a spur gear, or a bevel gear; also, toothed wheels, collectively.
(b)
An apparatus for performing a special function; gearing; as, the feed gear of a lathe.
(c)
Engagement of parts with each other; as, in gear; out of gear.
9.
pl. (Naut.) See 1st Jeer (b).
10.
Anything worthless; stuff; nonsense; rubbish. (Obs. or Prov. Eng.) "That servant of his that confessed and uttered this gear was an honest man."
Bever gear. See Bevel gear.
Core gear, a mortise gear, or its skeleton. See Mortise wheel, under Mortise.
Expansion gear (Steam Engine), the arrangement of parts for cutting off steam at a certain part of the stroke, so as to leave it to act upon the piston expansively; the cut-off. See under Expansion.
Feed gear. See Feed motion, under Feed, n.
Gear cutter, a machine or tool for forming the teeth of gear wheels by cutting.
Gear wheel, any cogwheel.
Running gear. See under Running.
To throw in gear or To throw out of gear (Mach.), to connect or disconnect (wheelwork or couplings, etc.); to put in, or out of, working relation.


verb
Gear  v. t.  (past & past part. geared; pres. part. gearing)  
1.
To dress; to put gear on; to harness.
2.
(Mach.) To provide with gearing.
3.
To adapt toward some specific purpose; as, they geared their advertising for maximum effect among teenagers.
Double geared, driven through twofold compound gearing, to increase the force or speed; said of a machine.


Gear  v. i.  (Mach.) To be in, or come into, gear.





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"Gear" Quotes from Famous Books



... in the same file and with the same steady step toward the forest on the other side the clearing. Right soon they vanished from view among the trees. They had gone in quest of scalps, but in the hunt more than one proud spirited brave was to lose his own natural head-gear, and of those who went forth, the majority ...
— Camp-fire and Wigwam • Edward Sylvester Ellis
... he shouted after them, as they plunged out of sight, somewhat jerkily, for Thomas, who had not driven a great deal, was not a master of gear-shifting. His mother ...
— The Old Gray Homestead • Frances Parkinson Keyes
... that is dropt in those furrows of fear, Will lift to the sun neither blade nor ear. Down it drops plumb, Where no spring times come; And here there needeth no harrowing gear: Wheat nor poppy nor any leaf Will cover this naked ground ...
— Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood • George MacDonald
... hopeless cold; to smile oily smiles, and tell queer ghost and fairy tales of evenings, and eat till they could eat no more, and sing the endless woman's song: "Amna aya, aya amna, ah! ah!" through the long lamp-lighted days as they mended their clothes and their hunting-gear. ...
— The Second Jungle Book • Rudyard Kipling
... low-gear work tearing through the jungle. Krannon had his face buried in the periscope mask and silently fought the controls. With each mile the going seemed to get better, until he finally swung up the periscope and opened the window armor. The jungle was still thick and deadly, ...
— Deathworld • Harry Harrison


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