Gear


(n.) Clothing; garments; ornaments.


(n.) Goods; property; household stuff.


(n.) Whatever is prepared for use or wear; manufactured stuff or material.


(n.) The harness of horses or cattle; trapping.


(n.) Warlike accouterments.


(n.) Manner; custom; behavior.


(n.) Business matters; affairs; concern.


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


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


(n.) Engagement of parts with each other; as, in gear; out of gear.


(n.) See 1st Jeer (b).


(n.) Anything worthless; stuff; nonsense; rubbish.


(v. t.) To dress; to put gear on; to harness.


(v. t.) To provide with gearing.


(v. i.) To be in, or come into, gear.



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