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What is "gear lever"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
gear lever
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But the group selector, like the main gear lever, does ask for more than average effort from its user.
▪ He let Lily steer and work the gear lever and promised to teach her how to drive.
▪ It'd take all of you to shift the gear lever.
▪ No palm print on the gear lever, for instance.
▪ The gear lever also chatters in its plastic cup, if it has not been replaced try that.
▪ The high-low button on the gear lever is a pleasure to work with; so is the forward-reverse selector.
▪ Through the middle-of-the-night streets, seem to have forgotten how to drive, is this the gear lever?
▪ Vasili glanced over his shoulder, his foot already on the brake and his hand dipping towards the gear lever.
Wiktionary
gear lever

n. (context British English) The lever used to change gears in a motor car. Called gear shift in the US and Canada.

WordNet
gear lever

n. a mechanical device for engaging and disengaging gears; "in England they call a gearshift a gear lever" [syn: gearshift, gearstick, shifter]

Usage examples of "gear lever".

A moment of straight road and he managed to jerk the gear lever into low as he hurtled into another blind corner, the engine howling now.

It may have been -- and probably was -- the veriest fluke, but he put the gear lever in neutral and applied the brake to bring the cable-car to rest exactly halfway in under the lip of the roof.

She pressed the gear-permission button and tried to move the gear lever downward-- nothing.

As bullets stitched a groove of holes across the lustrous mahogany bow of the Chris-Craft, Pitt took the gear lever in both hands and yanked it back while the boat was at full speed.

Oh, the panel had a conventional gear lever, a standby gyro and even a G meter, but of engine instruments there were none.

Pitt crammed the gear lever back to full forward and the machine guns on the patrol boat opened up.

He kept his hand on the gear lever, feeling the turning gears through it.