Defn: 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, or out of, gear (Mach.), to connect or disconnect (wheelwork or couplings, etc.); to put in, or out of, working relation.
GEAR
Gear v. t. [imp. & p. p. Geared; p. pr. & vb. n. Gearing.]
1. To dress; to put gear on; to harness.
2. (Mach.)
Defn: To provide with gearing. Double geared, driven through twofold compound gearing, to increase the force or speed; — said of a machine.
GEAR
Gear, v. i. (Mach.)
Defn: To be in, or come into, gear.
GEARING
Gear"ing, n.
1. Harness.