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- Gear - n. - Clothing; garments; ornaments.
- Gear - n. - Goods; property; household stuff.
- Gear - n. - Whatever is prepared for use or wear; manufactured stuff or material.
- Gear - n. - The harness of horses or cattle; trapping.
- Gear - n. - Warlike accouterments.
- Gear - n. - Manner; custom; behavior.
- Gear - n. - Business matters; affairs; concern.
- Gear - n. - A toothed wheel, or cogwheel; as, a spur gear, or a bevel gear; also, toothed wheels, collectively.
- Gear - n. - An apparatus for performing a special function; gearing; as, the feed gear of a lathe.
- Gear - n. - Engagement of parts with each other; as, in gear; out of gear.
- Gear - n. - See 1st Jeer (b).
- Gear - n. - Anything worthless; stuff; nonsense; rubbish.
- Gear - v. t. - To dress; to put gear on; to harness.
- Gear - v. t. - To provide with gearing.
- Gear - v. i. - To be in, or come into, gear.
- Geared - imp. & p. p. - of Gear
- Gearing - p. pr. & vb. n. - of Gear
- Gearing - n. - Harness.
- Gearing - n. - The parts by which motion imparted to one portion of an engine or machine is transmitted to another, considered collectively; as, the valve gearing of locomotive engine; belt gearing; esp., a train of wheels for transmitting and varying motion in machinery.
- Gear - n. - An apparatus for performing a special function; gearing; as, the feed gear of a lathe.
- Bridle - n. - The head gear with which a horse is governed and restrained, consisting of a headstall, a bit, and reins, with other appendages.
- Engage - v. t. - To come into gear with; as, the teeth of one cogwheel engage those of another, or one part of a clutch engages the other part.
- Hayrack - n. - A frame mounted on the running gear of a wagon, and used in hauling hay, straw, sheaves, etc.; -- called also hay rigging.
- Spider - n. - A skeleton, or frame, having radiating arms or members, often connected by crosspieces; as, a casting forming the hub and spokes to which the rim of a fly wheel or large gear is bolted; the body of a piston head; a frame for strengthening a core or mold for a casting, etc.
- Interdental - a. - Situated between teeth; as, an interdental space, the space between two teeth in a gear wheel.
- Gear - v. t. - To dress; to put gear on; to harness.
- Rock shaft - - A shaft that oscillates on its journals, instead of revolving, -- usually carrying levers by means of which it receives and communicates reciprocating motion, as in the valve gear of some steam engines; -- called also rocker, rocking shaft, and way shaft.
- Flank - n. - That part of the acting surface of a gear wheel tooth that lies within the pitch line.
- Perch - n. - A pole connecting the fore gear and hind gear of a spring carriage; a reach.
- Bevel gear - - A kind of gear in which the two wheels working together lie in different planes, and have their teeth cut at right angles to the surfaces of two cones whose apices coincide with the point where the axes of the wheels would meet.
- Cog - n. - A tooth, cam, or catch for imparting or receiving motion, as on a gear wheel, or a lifter or wiper on a shaft; originally, a separate piece of wood set in a mortise in the face of a wheel.
- Odontograph - n. - An instrument for marking or laying off the outlines of teeth of gear wheels.
- Dashpot - n. - A pneumatic or hydraulic cushion for a falling weight, as in the valve gear of a steam engine, to prevent shock.
- Dent - n. - A tooth, as of a card, a gear wheel, etc.
- Cogwheel - n. - A wheel with cogs or teeth; a gear wheel. See Illust. of Gearing.