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n. The lowest gearing available from a gearbox, typically in a motor vehicle or cycle.
Usage examples of "bottom gear".
He had to shout to make himself heard above the sound of an engine at maximum revolutions in bottom gear.
She put the RMC Ranger into bottom gear, and kept her foot on the brake pedal.
As O'Hara engaged in bottom gear, a bullet tore through the body of the truck, and then another, but he took no notice.
Hogg downshifted and crawled the last hundred feet to the gate in the van's bottom gear.
Hogg downshifted and crawled the last hundred feet to the gate in the vans bottom gear.
He slowed right down again to negotiate the slope down to Bedes Water, and bounced the car slowly over the rocks in the bottom of the river, before grinding up the opposite bank in bottom gear.
The track to the cottage wasn't doing the van's springs much good and I stayed in bottom gear, sliding from one pothole to the next in the heavy rain.
I flipped a passport to the American soldier and an insurance card to the West German policeman, then in bottom gear I moved across the tram tracks of Zimmerstrasse that bump you into a world where 'communist' is not a dirty word.
I thought he was going to be mown down and I began to run across the grass toward him, but then the car veered away and, its engine roaring in bottom gear, made straight for the lake.
Keith crashed the lever into bottom gear, felt the van move forward, bumping over rough ground.
Within half an hour of the first car's arrival the congested road traffic had slowed to a tedious, bottom gear crawl.
He bent low over the handle-bars, and went into bottom gear to get up Haverstock Hill.