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Gear

Gear (gear)
n.(?)
Gear
[OE. gere, ger, AS. gearwe clothing, adornment, armor, fr. gearo, gearu, ready, yare; akin to OHG. garaw***imacr], garw***imacr] ornament, dress. See Yare, and cf. Garb dress.]
  1. Clothing; garments; ornaments.

    Array thyself in thy most gorgeous gear. Spenser.

  2. Goods; property; household stuff.
    Chaucer.

    Homely gear and common ware. Robynson (More's Utopia).

  3. Whatever is prepared for use or wear; manufactured stuff or material.

    Clad in a vesture of unknown gear. Spenser.

  4. The harness of horses or cattle; trapping.
  5. Warlike accouterments.
    [Scot.] Jamieson.
  6. Manner; custom; behavior.
    [Obs.] Chaucer.
  7. Business matters; affairs; concern.
    [Obs.]

    Thus go they both together to their gear. Spenser.

  8. A toothed wheel, or cogwheel; as, a spur gear, or a bevel gear; also, toothed wheels, collectively.
    (b)
  9. See 1st Jeer (b).
  10. Anything worthless; stuff; nonsense; rubbish.
    [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Wright.

    That servant of his that confessed and uttered this gear was an honest man. Latimer.

    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, or out of, gear (Mach.), to connect or disconnect (wheelwork or couplings, etc.); to put in, or out of, working relation.

Gear

Gear (gear)
v. t.
Gear
  1. To dress] to put gear on; to harness.
  2. To provide with gearing.

    Double geared, driven through twofold compound gearing, to increase the force or speed; -- said of a machine.

Gear

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












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