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running gear orig. and chiefly U.S.
Also running-gear.
[f. running ppl. a.; in senses 1 and 3 a the plural form is used interchangeably with the singular.]
1. The moving parts of a mill or other large machine.
1662Rec. East-Hampton, N.Y. (1887) I. 201 Mr Backer shall have seven pounds for this yeare for tendinge the mill and maintayninge the runninge geares that is coggs and rounds. 1725New England Courant 18–25 Jan. 2/2 The Wind{ddd}carry'd off the Top of the Mill, with the Shaft, Vanes, and running Geer, and brake them to Pieces. 1834in J. S. Bassett Southern Plantation Overseer (1925) vi. 73 The runinge geares that is hear I cant under take to pick a crop with them. 1901Merwin & Webster Calumet ‘K’ xiv. 262 Down in the cellar putting in the running gear for the ‘cross-the-house conveyors’.
2. The rope and tackle used in handling (part of) a boat; = running rigging.
1838J. F. Cooper Homeward Bound II. iii. 55 The standing rigging are the bones and gristle; the running gear the veins in which her life circulates. 1856E. K. Kane Arctic Explorations II. iii. 48 We can burn hemp cable and cast-off running-gear. 1911J. Barten Compl. Naut. Pocket Dict. 165/1 Running gear. 1962A. G. Course Dict. Naut. Terms 163 Running gear, ropes, tackles, etc., that move in the course of ship handling or cargo working.
3. a. The wheels and axles of a cart or carriage. Also transf. and fig.
1857D. H. Strother Virginia Illustrated 230 A shadowy group was dimly visible, a carriage mounted on the running-gear of a wagon, and drawn by four horses. 1876Encycl. Brit. IV. 704/2 There is no wood on the Pacific coast from which any part of the running-gear of a good waggon can be made. 1904N.Y. World (Mag. Sect.) 1 May 6/1 The running gear is dark red and the upholstering is drab. 1916Dialect Notes IV. 348 Running gear, the remnants or ‘carcass’ of a fowl served up cold. 1923Ibid. V. 208 Runnin' gears, Those portions of a wagon other than the box or bed. 1924F. R. Bechdolt Tales of Old-Timers 363 The boy was driving a span of horses hitched to the running-gear of a lumber-wagon. 1941Amer. Speech XVI. 24/1 Of a skinny person. ‘He's got the running-gears of a katydid.’ 1948E. N. Dick Dixie Frontier xix. 208 The driver..fastened a big deep box on the axle or the front wheels of a wagon running-gear. 1953Randolph & Wilson Down in Holler viii. 184 When an airplane crashed and burned, my neighbor viewed the wreckage. ‘It looks like the runnin'-gears of a grasshopper,’ said he. 1972J. S. Hall Sayings from Old Smoky 53 (Someone or something) ‘looks like the runnin' gears of a crow's nest’.
b. The wheels, axles, and suspension of a railway locomotive, carriage, or wagon; the steering, suspension, and wheel systems of a motor vehicle.
1853Ann. Rep. U.S. Commissioners of Patents 64 Cars, railroad, running gear of. Henry D. Taylor. Newark, N.J. Feb. 3, 1852. 187711th Ann. Rep. Proc. Master Car-Builders Assoc. 57 Probably every one of us who has experience in handling foreign cars can fully realize the importance of our draw bars and oil-boxes, and, in fact, of all the running gear of the car. 1889Nat. Car & Locomotive Builder Mar. 35/1, I have always believed that the running gear of railway rolling stock should be constructed of such strength and with such intelligence as to give it a high factor of safety. 1900Motor World 8 Nov. 100/1 The motor is located centrally of the vehicle, and is hung on the upper section of the running frame, which is spring supported from the main tubular running gear. 1905Motor Man. (ed. 7) v. 85 Periodical cleaning and inspection of all the running gear is..the best possible insurance against breakdowns. 1919Fraser & Jones Motor Vehicles xxvi. 270 The parts of a motor vehicle not included in developing and transmitting power are classified under the general heading of running gear. This includes such parts as frames, springs, axles, wheels, brakes, steering gear, etc. 1932New Yorker 14 May 32/2 It was a club-sedan,..with red running gear. 1957Encycl. Brit. XIV. 284/1 The mechanical parts include those portions of the locomotive which make it suitable as a vehicle, i.e., the running gear, and the cab or superstructure. 1959Motor Man. (ed. 36) v. 99 What is often referred to as the running gear comprises the steering system, the springing or suspension, the brakes and the wheels and tyres. 1969Northern Territory News (Darwin) Focus '69 13/2 (Advt.), Semi-trailer tippers. Tough structural design, coupled with the best hoist and running gear available, assures down time reduced to periodic servicing. |