GEAR

gear. Gear, [g hard] n. accouterments, dress, traces, stuff, goods

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Gear (?), n. [[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. 1. Clothing; garments; ornaments.
Array thyself in thy most gorgeous gear. Spenser. 2. 2. Goods; property; household stuff. Chaucer.
Homely gear and common ware. Robynson (More's Utopia). 3. 3. Whatever is prepared for use or wear; manufactured stuff or material.
Clad in a vesture of unknown gear. Spenser. 4. 4. The harness of horses or cattle; trapping.
5. 5. Warlike accouterments. Jamieson.
6. 6. Manner; custom; behavior. Chaucer.
7. 7. Business matters; affairs; concern.
Thus go they both together to their gear. Spenser. 8. 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. 9. pl. (Naut.) See 1st Jeer (b).
10. 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, or out of, gear (Mach.), to connect or disconnect (wheelwork or couplings, etc.); to put in, or out of, working relation.