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gear
n. [OE. gere, ger, AS. gearwe clothing, adornment, armor, fr. gearo, gearu, ready, yare; akin to OHG. garaw, garw 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. (Jamieson.)
6. Manner; custom; behavior. (Chaucer.)
7. Business matters; affairs; concern. ()
Thus go they both together to their gear. (Spenser.)
8. (Mech.) A toothed wheel, or cogwheel; as, a spur gear, or a bevel gear; also, toothed wheels, collectively. ()
9. (Naut.) See 1st Jeer (b). ()
10. Anything worthless; stuff; nonsense; rubbish. (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 gear or To throw out of gear (Mach.), to connect or disconnect (wheelwork or couplings, etc.); to put in, or out of, working relation. ()
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v. t. 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. ()
v. i. (Mach.) To be in, or come into, gear. ()


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