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Webster 1913 Edition


Gear

Gear

(gēr)
,
Noun.
[OE.
gere
,
ger
, AS.
gearwe
clothing, adornment, armor, fr.
gearo
,
gearu
, ready, yare; akin to OHG.
garawī
,
garwī
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.
(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.]
Wright.
That servant of his that confessed and uttered this
gear
was an honest man.
Latimer.
Bever 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
,
Noun.
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.
To dress; to put on gear; to harness.

Definition 2024


gèar

gèar

See also: gear, Gear, and géar

Scottish Gaelic

Noun

gèar m

  1. (mechanics): gear

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