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Clothing; garments; ornaments. Array thyself in thy most gorgeous gear. Spenser.

of an engine or machine is transmitted to another, considered collectively; as, the valve gearing of locomotive engine; belt gearing; esp., a train of wheels for transmitting and varying motion in machinery. Frictional gearing. See under Frictional. -- Gearing chain, an endless chain transmitted motion from one sprock…

A kind of gear in which the two wheels working together lie in different planes, and have their teeth cut at right angles to the surfaces of two cones whose apices coincide with the point where the axes of the wheels would meet.

A gear by means of which the speed of machinery or of a vehicle may be changed while that of the propelling engine or motor remains constant; -- called also change-speed gear.

A change-speed gear in which the gears are changed by sliding endwise.

A harness for draught horses.

Headdress.

Spur gearing having teeth slanting across the face of the wheel, sometimes slanting in opposite directions from the middle.

A steering gear, esp. for an automobile, not affected by the road wheels, as when they strike an obstacle side ways, but easily controlled by the hand wheel or steering lever.

To strip of gear; to unharness; to throw out of gear.

A friction gear wheel with wedge-shaped circumferential grooves. -- Wedge gearing.

ddendum circle (Mech.), the circle which may be described around a circular spur wheel or gear wheel, touching the crests or tips of the teeth. Rankine.

Trimmed. [Obs.] Full fresh and new here gear apiked was. Chaucer.

A switching engine the running gear and driving gear of which are on a bogie, or truck.

The head gear with which a horse is governed and restrained, consisting of a headstall, a bit, and reins, with other appendages.

arm, either by coals, by a lamp, or by hot water; a portable grate for coals. -- Chafing gear (Naut.), any material used to protect sails, rigging, or the like, at points where they are exposed to friction.

oduce a different but definite rate of angular velocity in an axis, as in cutting screws, gear, etc. -- To ring the changes on, to present the same facts or arguments in variety of ways.

A tooth, cam, or catch for imparting or receiving motion, as on a gear wheel, or a lifter or wiper on a shaft; originally, a separate piece of wood set in a mortise in the face of a wheel.

A wheel with cogs or teeth; a gear wheel. See Illust. of Gearing.

which the longitudinal crank shaft drives the rear wheels through a clutch, change-speed gear, countershaft, and two parallel side chains, in order.