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Gear wheel

Gear \Gear\ (g[=e]r), n. [OE. gere, ger, AS. gearwe clothing, adornment, armor, fr. gearo, gearu, ready, yare; akin to OHG. garaw[=i], garw[=i] 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. [Scot.]
    --Jamieson.

  6. Manner; custom; behavior. [Obs.]
    --Chaucer.

  7. Business matters; affairs; concern. [Obs.]

    Thus go they both together to their gear.
    --Spenser.

  8. (Mech.)

    1. A toothed wheel, or cogwheel; as, a spur gear, or a bevel gear; also, toothed wheels, collectively.

    2. An apparatus for performing a special function; gearing; as, the feed gear of a lathe.

    3. Engagement of parts with each other; as, in gear; out of gear.

  9. pl. (Naut.) See 1st Jeer (b) .

  10. Anything worthless; stuff; nonsense; rubbish. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
    --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.

Wiktionary
gear wheel

alt. a wheel with a toothed rim, intended to engage with others, or similar equipment, to form a gear n. a wheel with a toothed rim, intended to engage with others, or similar equipment, to form a gear

WordNet
gear wheel

n. a toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion [syn: gear, cogwheel]

Usage examples of "gear wheel".

Another reheating, and two solid blows to the unfullered end, and the small gear wheel is forged.

He climbed on the Harley, thumbed the starter button, used the long heavy shift to slide the gear wheel into place, rolled in a little throttle, released the clutch, and rode across the highway.

One time he designed a box full of gears, one of which was a big, eight-inch-diameter gear wheel that had six spokes.

The main gear wheel tore open his body in a dozen places, killing him instantly.

The teeth of a gear wheel emerged and rose higher, soon the whole wheel could be seen.

He pointed to the largest front gear wheel and the largest rear one, and she saw how they did not align.

One wooden gear wheel was mounted vertically, on a large wooden shaft that was turned directly by the water wheel.

Its heavy wooden pegs meshed with the second gear wheel, which was mounted horizontally on the shaft that turned the millstone.

A meter-wide gear wheel, fitted to the end of the drum, meshed with a smaller pinion gear that could be turned by a long crank handle.