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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



... Gaston," said the Knight. "If we acquit ourselves as well as our fathers, we shall have little to be ashamed of. What think you of this man's gear?" ...
— The Lances of Lynwood • Charlotte M. Yonge
... the costumes of the men were similar to that of the captain. But in head gear they differed not only from him but from each other, some wearing the ordinary straw hat of the merchant service, while others wore cloth caps and red worsted night-caps. I observed that all their arms were sent below; the captain ...
— The Coral Island - A Tale Of The Pacific Ocean • R. M. Ballantyne
... gaoler. Jack, following the example of Robinson Crusoe, attempted to tie knots on the tail of time by cutting notches with his knife on the leg of the table, but most days he forgot to perform this operation, and so his wooden almanac fell hopelessly out of gear. He estimated that he had been a little more than a week in prison when he heard by the clang of the bolts that the next cell was to have ...
— A Rock in the Baltic • Robert Barr
... was natural that, when the party reached Paris, Adrienne should soon insist on crossing the Pont d' Alexandre III. to his studio near the "Boule Mich'" for an inspection of her commissioned canvas. For a while, she wandered about the business-like place, littered with the gear of the painter's craft. It was, in a way, a form of mind-reading, for Samson's brush was the tongue ...
— The Call of the Cumberlands • Charles Neville Buck
... soldiers fastened about Young's neck and about mine heavy wooden collars, which set well out over our shoulders and were not unlike great ruffs. I confess that for my own part my professional interest in this curious piece of gear entirely overcame my repugnance to wearing it, for I instantly recognized it as the cuauh-cozatl, with which, as the ancient records tell us, the Aztecs were accustomed to secure their prisoners of war. But Young, who could not be expected to ...
— The Aztec Treasure-House • Thomas Allibone Janvier


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