Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Usage examples of "reverse gear".
Although the man had had no experience of marine engines, whether internal combustion or otherwise, he could be relied upon to work the throttle and reverse gear.
After a few more feet Schaffer stopped the car, engaged reverse gear and brought the car back up into its original position.
With eyes like saucers, Chip frantically fumbled for reverse gear.
Then, ever so tentatively, she engaged the reverse gear and backed the engine a bit.
I could not give up, because even here, I was still lacking the reverse gear I had been born without Alive, dead, or in living pieces less than electron size, I was still committed to chewing at any cage that held me until I could gnaw a way out.
He started up the car, slammed it into reverse gear, and stamped on the accelerator so abruptly that the engine died.
But with the reverse gear he was able to back away and keep going.
If all runcarts were built without a reverse gear, that would not render the construction of a machine with reverse gear impossible.