What is "steering gear"

Usage examples of "steering gear".

Swift's use of an electric cannon had broken the steering gear of the Wonder, the rival craft, and from that time on Tom and his friends had a clear field to search for the bullion held fast in the hold of the Boldero.

It gurgled as it ran past the rudder, while the clanking of the steam-steering gear announced that the tanker was again using her helm.

He located the generator controls, steering gear, collective, navigation instruments, lights, trim, IFF detonators, fire extinguishers, flight-path scanners-all where they ought to be and easily grouped for natural interfacing.

Torpedos detonated close enough to spring seams, create shock damage to heavy machinery, devastate sophisticated electronic equipment, flood spaces, start fires, darken the ship, damage the steering gear, injure thirty men and kill another dozen.

The second torpedo struck aft of the engine room, disabling the giant steering gear and adding another five degrees to the list.

He heard the bearings in the wheel engines were also gone, and the steering gear needed all new rods.

As her eyes adjusted, she made out the low and narrow tunnel that housed Huron's steering gear.

They found the hatchway and climbed down the lander to the steering gear compartment and made their way around the old, still oily machinery to the forward bulkhead.

Yet the car moved, and he felt it respond to the stiff steering gear.

Daylight showed Almarina with a badly burned bridge and a lot of holes above water, but her steering gear was intact.