Swing into high ___ (start going faster)

Usage examples of gear.

FMT attracted the attention of the endocrine barons of Abraxas, and the whole story shifted into a higher gear.

Leaving the horses and gear, he led Cuin afoot back the way they had come.

Finally, his F-14 was lined up on catapult one, the deck sailors attaching the catapult to the nose gear Collins checked his instruments, the twin turbines purring aft, waiting to be kicked into full thrust.

By the light of the remaining half, he and Alec located the small tack room and began pulling down saddles and gear.

Springs, alembics, coils of copper tubing, buckled sheets of metal, gear systems both rack-and-pinion and epicyclic, pendulums, levers, cams, cranks, differentials, bearings, pulleys, assorted tools, and stone jars containing alkahest and corrosive substances crowded every horizontal surface.

The machine, to serve in the field, shifted its cipher alphabet irregularly by means of gears.

Made of carbon fiber, aluminium or composite resin, with cams that worked like gears at the end of the bow to give the bow cable more power, these modern versions of the longbow would have had Robin Hood creaming his Lincoln green.

Mike had returned the damaged gear to the aquarium and had explained what little they knew about what had happened to it.

Lars Aquavit had tried to teach me about forward and reverse, and when to do those things, about all the different gears, about the gas, and especially about the brake.

The barricade was a net stretched across the flight deck in front of the island, designed to snag crippled aircraft that, for one reason or another, could not use their arrestor gear.

Dragged to a halt by the arrestor gear, the MiG paused to spit out the cable, then began following a deck director toward a free space to starboard.

Deep in personal combat with the official bafflegab staring out at him from his reader, Governor Corwin Jame Moreau switched mental gears with an effort and turned his attention to his intercom.

Hobbie will hae a merry morning when he comes hame, and misses baith bride and gear.

Alex recognized the gear: the long, flowing, bardly cloak and the beat-up carpetbag made from remnants of tapestries Baldric had no doubt worked his magic on previously.

Turning, Batman saw a black-haired man of perhaps fifty, wearing American combat web gear and holding an AK-47.