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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Gear \Gear\, v. i. (Mach.) To be in, or come into, gear. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Gear \Gear\ (g[=e]r), n. [OE. gere, ger, AS. gearwe clothing, adornment, armor, fr. gearo, gearu, ready, yare; akin to OHG. garaw[imac], garw[imac] ornament, dress. See {Yare}, and cf. {Garb} dress.] 1. Clothing; garments; ornaments. [1913 Webster] Array thyself in thy most gorgeous gear. --Spenser. [1913 Webster] 2. Goods; property; household stuff. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] Homely gear and common ware. --Robynson (More's Utopia). [1913 Webster] 3. Whatever is prepared for use or wear; manufactured stuff or material. [1913 Webster] Clad in a vesture of unknown gear. --Spenser. [1913 Webster] 4. The harness of horses or cattle; trapping. [1913 Webster] 5. Warlike accouterments. [Scot.] --Jamieson. [1913 Webster] 6. Manner; custom; behavior. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] 7. Business matters; affairs; concern. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Thus go they both together to their gear. --Spenser. [1913 Webster] 8. (Mech.) (a) A toothed wheel, or cogwheel; as, a spur gear, or a bevel gear; also, toothed wheels, collectively. (b) An apparatus for performing a special function; gearing; as, the feed gear of a lathe. (c) Engagement of parts with each other; as, in gear; out of gear. [1913 Webster] 9. pl. (Naut.) See 1st {Jeer} (b) . [1913 Webster] 10. Anything worthless; stuff; nonsense; rubbish. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] --Wright. [1913 Webster] That servant of his that confessed and uttered this gear was an honest man. --Latimer. [1913 Webster] {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 gear} or {To throw out of gear} (Mach.), to connect or disconnect (wheelwork or couplings, etc.); to put in, or out of, working relation. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Gear \Gear\ (g[=e]r) v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Geared} (g[=e]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Gearing}.] 1. To dress; to put gear on; to harness. [1913 Webster] 2. (Mach.) To provide with gearing. [1913 Webster] 3. To adapt toward some specific purpose; as, they geared their advertising for maximum effect among teenagers. [PJC] {Double geared}, driven through twofold compound gearing, to increase the force or speed; -- said of a machine. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: gear n 1: a toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion [syn: {gear}, {gear wheel}, {geared wheel}, {cogwheel}] 2: wheelwork consisting of a connected set of rotating gears by which force is transmitted or motion or torque is changed; "the fool got his tie caught in the geartrain" [syn: {gearing}, {gear}, {geartrain}, {power train}, {train}] 3: a mechanism for transmitting motion for some specific purpose (as the steering gear of a vehicle) [syn: {gear}, {gear mechanism}] 4: equipment consisting of miscellaneous articles needed for a particular operation or sport etc. [syn: {gear}, {paraphernalia}, {appurtenance}] v 1: set the level or character of; "She pitched her speech to the teenagers in the audience" [syn: {gear}, {pitch}] From Danish-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.1 [fd-dan-eng]: gear gear