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Webster 1913 Edition
Gear
Gear
(gēr)
, Noun.
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.
(Mech.)
(a)
A toothed wheel, or cogwheel;
as, a spur
; also, toothed wheels, collectively. gear
, or a bevel gear
(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
.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
. – 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.
Gear
(gēr)
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Geared
(gērd)
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Gearing
.] 1.
To dress; to put gear on; to harness.
2.
(Mach.)
To provide with gearing.
Double geared
, driven through twofold compound gearing, to increase the force or speed; – said of a machine.
Gear
,Verb.
I.
(Mach.)
To be in, or come into, gear.
Webster 1828 Edition
Gear
GEAR
, n.1.
Apparatus; whatever is prepared; hence, habit; dress; ornaments. Array thyself in her most gorgeous gear.
2.
More generally, the harness or furniture of beasts; whatever is used in equipping horses or cattle for draught; tackle.3.
In Scotland, warlike accouterments; also, goods, riches.4.
Business; matters.5.
By seamen pronounced jears, which see.GEAR
,Verb.
T.