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单词 gear
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gearn.

Brit. /ɡɪə/, U.S. /ɡɪ(ə)r/
Forms: Middle English gære, Middle English ger, Middle English guere, Middle English–1500s gheer(e, Middle English gare, Middle English–1500s gayre, gaire, geyre, Middle English–1800s ge(e)r(e, geir(e, Middle English–1500s geyer, 1500s–1700s geare, 1500s– gear.
Origin: A borrowing from early Scandinavian. Etymon: Norse gervi.
Etymology: Middle English gere , probably < Old Norse gervi, gørvi = Old English *gieru (poet. in plural gearwe , with pre-English change of declension), Old Saxon garewi , gerwi , Old High German garawî , gar(e)wî < Old Germanic *garwîn- weak feminine, < *garwu- ready, yare adj., whence *garwjan to make ready, Old Norse gerva , gørva , gera , gøra to make, gar v.It is probably unnecessary to assume as the source an Old Norse *geri with a dropping of the v (w) similar to that in gera, gøra, the common prose forms of the verb gørva; there was apparently in Middle English a disposition to reduce rw to r after a stressed palatal vowel.
I. Equipment. Cf. furniture n. 4.
1.
a. collective singular (†rarely plural) Apparel, attire, dress, vestments. Now common in colloquial use.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > [noun]
clothesc888
hattersOE
shroudc1000
weedOE
shrouda1122
clothc1175
hatteringa1200
atourc1220
back-clout?c1225
habit?c1225
clothingc1275
cleadinga1300
dubbinga1300
shroudinga1300
attirec1300
coverturec1300
suitc1325
apparel1330
buskingc1330
farec1330
harness1340
tire1340
backs1341
geara1350
apparelmentc1374
attiringa1375
vesturec1385
heelinga1387
vestmentc1386
arraya1400
graitha1400
livery1399
tirementa1400
warnementa1400
arrayment1400
parelc1400
werlec1400
raiment?a1425
robinga1450
rayc1450
implements1454
willokc1460
habiliment1470
emparelc1475
atourement1481
indumenta1513
reparel1521
wearing gear1542
revesture1548
claesc1550
case1559
attirement1566
furniture1566
investuring1566
apparelling1567
dud1567
hilback1573
wear1576
dress1586
enfolding1586
caparison1589
plight1590
address1592
ward-ware1598
garnish1600
investments1600
ditement1603
dressing1603
waith1603
thing1605
vestry1606
garb1608
outwall1608
accoutrementa1610
wearing apparel1617
coutrement1621
vestament1632
vestiment1637
equipage1645
cask1646
aguise1647
back-timbera1656
investiture1660
rigging1664
drapery1686
vest1694
plumage1707
bussingc1712
hull1718
paraphernalia1736
togs1779
body clothing1802
slough1808
toggery1812
traps1813
garniture1827
body-clothes1828
garmenture1832
costume1838
fig1839
outfit1840
vestiture1841
outer womana1845
outward man1846
vestiary1846
rag1855
drag1870
clo'1874
parapherna1876
clobber1879
threads1926
mocker1939
schmatte1959
vine1959
kit1989
a1350 in G. L. Brook Harley Lyrics (1968) 39 Heo glystnede ase gold when hit glemede; nes ner gome so gladly on gere.
1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis II. 227 Let clothen in the same gere.
c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) l. 1811 Þat we gon gay in oure gere.
1465 J. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 528 I beseche yow þat þis ger be not forget, for I haue not an hole hose for to do on.
1484 in E. Hobhouse Church-wardens' Accts. (1890) 13 Item for wayschyng of the church gare vis. iiijd.
1508 Golagros & Gawane (Chepman & Myllar) sig. aiiii Ane girdill ourgilt and vthir light gere.
a1529 J. Skelton Magnyfycence (?1530) sig. Cii I can deuyse my gere after the cowrtly maner.
1530 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1885) III. 363 For makyng the dawnsars gayre.
1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. 961/1 They did it to shewe their newe gay gere.
1728 C. Cibber Vanbrugh's Provok'd Husband i. i. 16 My Lady's geer alone were as much as fill'd four Portmantel Trunks.
1776 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1862) 2nd Ser. II. 196 I have put on all my birthday geer.
1787 A. Young Jrnl. 16 Sept. in Trav. France (1792) i. 61 Dressed in holiday geers.
1815 W. Wordsworth White Doe of Rylstone iii. 45 Noisy swarms Of Peasants in their homely gear.
1857 J. G. Holland Bay-path xxiv. 278 Mr. Pynchon himself, in his rusty travelling gear.
1879 ‘E. Garrett’ House by Wks. II. 206 She packed her own marriage gear..with her own hand.
1963 Sunday Express 22 Dec. 14/2 A designer of singularly avant garde ‘gear’ (men's wear to the uninitiated).
1966 Listener 3 Mar. 327/2 There was no dressing up—in case, presumably, the customers fled at the sight of the queer gear.
†b. Appendages to a (clerical) vestment. Obsolete.
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society > faith > artefacts > vestments > [noun] > appendages to
gear1552
1552 in W. Page Inventories Church Goods York, Durham & Northumberland (1897) 37 Albes and other geir belonging to the afforesaid vestmentes.
1552 in W. Page Inventories Church Goods York, Durham & Northumberland (1897) 55 One old vestment..and one..boithe without geire.
†c. plural. Habits, manners. Obsolete. rare.The earliest recorded sense: placed here as being possibly a forced application of sense 1, suggested by the Latin habitus.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [noun] > a habit or practice > collectively
gearsc1200
ways1628
practicals1640
c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 35 Þe deuel..teð forð geres hwile after fox, hwile after wulue, hwile after leun, hwile after oðre, and on ech of hise deden is iefned to þe deore wuas geres he forðteoð.
c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 165 Hie..teð forð geres after wilde deore, sume after beore, sume after wulue, sume after oðer deor.
c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 209.
2. Armour, arms, warlike accoutrements. Rarely in plural. Also fighting-gear. Obsolete exc. archaic.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > [noun]
gearc1275
armourc1300
armsc1325
armingc1330
ordnancea1393
armourer?c1400
artilleryc1405
habiliments1422
artry1447
armaturea1460
apparamenta1464
atour1480
munitionc1515
furnishments1559
furniture1569
equipage1579
ammunition?1588
magazine1588
victuals1653
war1667
armament1668
contraband1753
stuff1883
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 6826 On ich wulle mid mine gæren.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 7533 ‘Dos awai’, he [sc. David] said ‘þis gere, Certes can i nan armes bere’.
c1475 (?c1425) Avowing of King Arthur (1984) l. 373 Quen þou art armut in þi gere, Take þi schild and þi spere.
1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 88 a/2 They made theyr geer redy and departed.
1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xviii. 165 Thai..fand gib harper in his ger. And, for sa gude his armys wer, Thai strak his hed of.
1513 Act 5 Hen. VIII c. 6 Any Armour or defenceable Geer of War.
1546 in P. F. Tytler Hist. Scotl. (1864) III. 374 After yame came the young laird..and viii men with hym all in geir.
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. v. v. 252 Of serviceable fighting-gear small stock.
1864 W. W. Skeat tr. J. L. Uhland Songs & Ballads 376 The host comes slowly onward, equipped with warlike gear.
3.
a. Accoutrements of a riding horse, or his rider. †Formerly also in plural. Now always explicitly riding gear n. at riding n.1 Compounds 3.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [noun]
harness1303
geara1400
graithc1650
tackling1650
horse-gear1653
garniture1670
tackle1684
van harness1823
tack1924
a1400–50 Alexander (Dublin) 790* Grathez on þis gay gere, & þen a gilt sadyll.
c1420 Sir Amadace (Camden) xxxii Ylke mon his owne schall have, That he syttes apon, Sadyll, brydyll, and oder geyre.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Zech. xiv. 20 At that tyme shal the rydinge geer of ye horses be holy vnto the Lorde.
1690 J. Dryden Don Sebastian i. i. 17 Ant. Thou wilt not make a Horse of me? Must. Be advis'd Friend, and buckle to thy Geers [makes him go down on all-fours, bridles him—‘To your paces villain, amble, trot and gallop’].
1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge xlvii. 207 Bridles, topboots, spurs, and such gear, were strewn about.
1871 J. Yeats Techn. Hist. Commerce 46 The Egyptians were skilful manufacturers of riding gear.
b. Harness for draught animals. Before the 19th cent. chiefly in plural.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > general equipment > [noun] > harness of draught animal
harness1303
plough harnessc1390
geara1400
draught1483
van harness1823
trave harness1839
yoking1873
hitch1876
trace-harness1885
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 6221 Sex hundreth cartes wit al þair geres.
1424 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 56 My cartes and my plowes, and all my hors þat longen to hem, whith all her gere.
?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. iiiv He muste haue..his oxen or horses, and the geyr that longeth to them. That is to say: yokes..wrethyng teames.
1526 Will in A. Gibbons Ely Episcopal Rec. (1891) 220 Ye best donge carte and fyve gayres of ye best and my best ploughe and the geyers.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 221 When they [horses] are set in their geirs to draw the chariots, how they ioy when they are encouraged.
1695 London Gaz. No. 3115/4 A Sorrel Mare..the Hair rub'd off her sides with Geers.
1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 138. ⁋11 She rises before the sun to order the horses to their geers.
1799 G. Washington Let. in Writings (1893) XIV. 220 Not suffering the Ploughs, Harrows..and the Gears belonging to them, to be unnecessarily exposed.
1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel I. 74 Cracking whip and jingling gears Recall'd the toils of boyish years.
1846 J. Baxter Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4) II. 129 Their gear or harness, including the cost of keeping it in repair, amounts to 25s. yearly.
1869 J. C. Atkinson Peacock's Gloss. Dial. Hundred of Lonsdale Gear, harness, tackle of any kind, furniture; as plough-gear, cart-gear, etc.
1886 R. Holland Gloss. Words County of Chester (at cited word) ‘What's Tom doing this wet day?’ ‘Mester, he's cleaning th' gears.’
†4. figurative. (Probably chiefly referring to sense 3b) (ready) in one's gears: in harness, ready for work = Latin in procinctu. to put in (also get into) one's gears: to set or get to work. right in one's gear: in one's right senses. warm in one's gear: settled down to work. out of one's gears: out of sorts. Obsolete.
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the world > health and disease > mental health > [adjective]
in (one's right) witc1000
wittyc1000
wisec1290
well-tempered1340
reasonablec1400
safe1402
perfectc1440
well in (also of) one's witsa1450
right in one's geara1500
well-advised1532
sensed1549
unmad1570
well-advised1585
rational1598
solid1606
in one's (right) senses1613
formala1616
of (in) disposing mind or memory1628
compos mentis1631
righta1638
well-hinged1649
well-balanced1652
spacked1673
clear-headed1709
sane1721
unfantastic1794
unmaddened1797
pas si bête1840
lucid1843
unfantastical1862
clothed and in one's right mind1873
right-minded1876
ungiddy1904
clear1950
the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > occupied or busy [phrase] > settled down to business
warm in one's gear1642
the world > action or operation > undertaking > beginning action or activity > begin action or activity [verb (intransitive)] > resolutely or energetically
to go to it1490
busklea1535
settle1576
to lay on1587
to put in (also get into) one's gearsa1658
to put (occasionally lay, set) one's shoulder to the wheel1678
yark1721
to get going1822
to pitch in1835
to roll up one's sleeves1838
square1849
to clap on1850
to wire in (also away)1864
to dig in1884
hunker1903
tie into1904
to get cracking1937
to get stuck in1938
to get weaving1942
to get it on1954
the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > [adjective] > prepared or ready
i-radc888
yarec888
i-redec1000
i-redya1175
boundc1175
graith?c1225
aready1250
alreadyc1275
readyc1275
armedc1300
prestc1300
bentc1330
ripec1330
purveyed1435
mature?1440
apt1474
habile1485
in (a) case to (also for)1523
provided1533
in procinct1540
weeping-ripe1548
furnished1553
fit1569
preta1600
expedite1604
predy1613
procinct1618
foreprepared1642
presto1644
apparated1663
(ready) in one's gears1664
fallow1850
standby1893
organized1926
(to be) all set1949
the world > health and disease > ill health > [adjective] > in state of ill health or diseased > disordered or out of sorts
out of estatec1400
disordainedc1430
out of order1530
mistempered?1541
untemperate1541
so-soa1592
indisposed1598
discomposed1603
out of sorts1621
disorderly1655
queerish1684
out of one's gears1699
disordered1708
uneasy1725
seedy1729
queer1749
scaly1803
quisby1807
under the weather1827
all nohow1852
toneless1854
nohowish1867
chippy1868
fishy1868
off-colour1876
dicky1883
on-and-offish1888
cheap1891
crook1916
lousy1933
a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xxi. 258 He is inwardly flayde, Not right in his gere.
1642 T. Fuller Holy State iii. xiii. 184 They think themselves not warm in their geeres, till they are all on fire.
1642 D. Rogers Naaman 128 Iehu..being warme in his geare.
a1658 J. Cleveland Clievelandi Vindiciæ (1677) 134 Let him put himself in his Geers.
1664 G. Etherege Comical Revenge iv. ii. 50 Is Grace ready in her Geers..?
a1677 I. Barrow Treat. Pope's Supremacy (1680) 71 The Apostles were..in procinctu, ready in their gears to move whither Divine suggestions did call them.
1682 J. Dryden Medall 4 The Frauds he learnt in his Fanatique years Made him uneasy in his lawfull gears.
1683 W. Penn Let. Free Soc. Traders 8 Of this more hereafter, being yet Raw and New in our Geer.
1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Out of his Gears, out of sorts.
1712 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 5 Jan. (1948) II. 455 Nuttal was surprised, when they gave him bits of paper instead of money; but I made Ben Tooke put him in his geers.
1713 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 8 Jan. (1948) II. 598 Oo must understad tht I am in my Geers.
1780 S. Johnson Let. 4 July (1992) III. 281 Keep my Master tight in his geers.
II. Apparatus.
5.
a. Apparatus generally; appliances, implements, tackle, tools. †Also in plural: toys.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > [noun]
tacklea1325
enginea1393
geara1400
workhorse1463
graith1513
trinketc1525
implementsa1552
furniture1577
store1605
tew1616
thing1662
stock-in-trade1775
tack1777
apparatus1796
work thing1812
gearinga1854
matériel1856
plant1867
hardware1947
workhorse1949
society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > [noun]
beaubeletc1205
juelet1340
trifle1375
geara1400
gaudc1430
jape1436
playing thing1440
baublea1475
playock1508
gewgawa1529
toy?1565
gay1577
gambol1579
ruggle1598
frolic1650
playthinga1674
wally1692
sporting-piece1740
playferea1774
play material1897
play-pretty1905
the mind > possession > supply > [noun] > that which is supplied > that with which anything is equipped > equipment or accoutrements
ornament?c1225
i-wendea1250
atil1297
tacklea1325
apparel1330
conreyc1330
farec1330
tirec1330
apparementc1340
apparelmentc1374
graithc1375
appurtenancec1386
geara1400
warnementa1400
stuff1406
parelling?a1440
farrements1440
stuffurec1440
skippeson1444
harnessa1450
parela1450
implements1454
reparel1466
ordinance1475
habiliments1483
ornation1483
muniments1485
mountures1489
outred1489
accomplement?c1525
trinketc1525
garnishing1530
garniture1532
accoutrementsc1550
furniments1553
tackling1558
instrument1563
ordinara1578
appointment?1578
outreiking1584
appoint1592
dighting1598
outreik1598
apparate?c1600
accomplishment1605
attirail1611
coutrement1621
apparatusa1628
equipage1648
thing1662
equipment1717
paraphernalia1736
tack1777
outfit1787
fittinga1817
fixing1820
set-out1831
rigging1837
fixture1854
parapherna1876
clobber1890
the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > [noun] > (a) means > equipment for any action or undertaking
ornament?c1225
i-wendea1250
atil1297
tacklea1325
apparel1330
conreyc1330
farec1330
tirec1330
apparementc1340
apparelmentc1374
graithc1375
appurtenancec1386
geara1400
warnementa1400
stuff1406
parelling?a1440
farrements1440
stuffurec1440
skippeson1444
harnessa1450
parela1450
implements1454
reparel1466
ordinance1475
habiliments1483
ornation1483
muniments1485
outred1489
trinketc1525
garnishing1530
garniture1532
accoutrementsc1550
furniments1553
tackling1558
instrument1563
ordinara1578
appointment?1578
outreiking1584
supellectile1584
appoint1592
dighting1598
outreik1598
materialsa1600
apparate?c1600
attirail1611
coutrement1621
apparatusa1628
outrig1639
equipage1648
thing1662
equipment1717
paraphernalia1736
fixture1767
tack1777
outfit1787
fittinga1817
fixing1820
matériel1821
set-out1831
rigging1837
parapherna1876
clobber1890
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 24485 Ioseph and nichodeme..[W]id þaim broght þai gere enogh, vte of his fete þe nail droght.
a1400–50 Alexander 1773 For ai a child mot him chese . to childire geris.
c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness l. 1505 Nov is alle þis guere geten glotounes to serue.
c1405 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 354 Wo was his Cook but if his Sauce weere Poynaunt and sharp and redy al his geere.
1461 T. Playter in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) II. 236 It were tyme your gere necessarye on that by-halfe were purveyd fore.
1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xvii. 702 Iohne crab, that had his geir all ȝar, In his fagattis has set the fyre.
1823 W. Scott Peveril IV. i. 12 The warders must bring their own gear [sc. fetters] with them.
1832 J. Hodgson in J. Raine Mem. (1858) II. 260 All the quarry gear was swept away by one of the great floods.
1849 G. C. Greenwell Gloss. Terms Coal Trade Northumberland & Durham 28 Gear, work-tools, consisting of picks, drills, maul and wedge, shovel, cracket, &c.
1850 H. T. Cheever Whale & his Captors iv. 78 An ingenious Frenchman..had bladders and other gear to float dead whales.
1883 Great Internat. Fisheries Exhib. Catal. p. xxxiv Such sportsman's gear as rods, lines, artificial flies, and baits.
1885 Act 48 & 49 Victoria c. 70 §7 Injury..done by one sea-fishing boat to another, or to the nets, lines, and gear thereof.
1885 Sir J. C. Mathew in Law Times Rep. 52 265/1 The vessel..was sold as she lay with her gear and tackle.
1885 Athenæum 16 May 637/3 Pretending to work, amidst building stones and masons' gear, on a Paris quai.
b. The organs of generation. Now only slang.
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the world > life > the body > sex organs > [noun]
shapea1000
shameOE
i-cundeOE
memberc1300
privy memberc1325
kindc1330
privitiesc1375
harness1382
shameful parts1382
genitoriesa1387
partc1390
tailc1390
genitalsa1393
thingc1405
genitalc1450
privy parts1533
secret1535
loin?1541
genitures1548
filthy parts1553
shamefulness1561
ware1561
meatc1564
natural places1569
secret members1577
lady ware1592
natural parts1601
lady's ware1608
gear1611
private parts1623
groin1631
pudendums1634
natural1650
privacies1656
sex1664
secrecyc1675
nudities1677
affair1749
sexual parts1753
person1824
sex organ1847
privates1940
naughty bits1972
1675 T. Hobbes tr. Homer Odysses xxii. 280 To the Dogs to eat they threw his Gear.
1704 J. Swift Tale of Tub xi. 202 He would..with one Hand out with his Gear, and piss full in their Eyes.
1893 in J. S. Farmer Slang
in combination.1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Chaude-colle, saltnesse, leacherousnesse, geereitch.
†c. Weaving. A leaf of heddles. Obsolete.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [noun] > weaving > loom > heddle(s) > leaf of
gear1500
leaf1807
standard1807
1500 Nottingham Corp. Rec. 1380 43 iij. lynen geyrs et j. lathe.
1523 Nottingham Corp. Rec. 1395 7 Pro quodam instrumento textorum vulgariter dicto a lynen gegre [? read geyre].
1780 A. Young Tour Ireland (Dublin ed.) I. 324 It [flax] is ready to be delivered to the weaver, with the reed and geers adapted to manufacturing it.
1813 ‘T. Martin’ Circle Mech. Arts 239 in Bischoff Woollen Manuf. (1862) II. 407 The loom consists merely of two bamboo rollers, one for the warp, and another for the web, and a pair of geer.
1822 R. G. Wallace 15 Years in India 298 The loom consists of a reed and geers, with a small beam, upon which the warp is rolled.
1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 1285 The Hindu..inserts his great toes into two loops under the geer, to serve him for treddles.
d. Mining. pair of gears = gallows-timber n. at gallows n. Compounds 1d.
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1849 G. C. Greenwell Gloss. Terms Coal Trade Northumberland & Durham 28 Gears Pair of, see Gallows Timber.
e. that's (also it's) the gear: an expression of approval. Hence as adj., good, excellent, ‘great’. Also as int. slang.
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the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > excellence > [interjection]
primea1637
à la bonne heure1750
shabash1843
all righty1877
fid1898
quaiss kitir1898
show1916
that's (also it's) the gear1925
swell1930
bakgat1969
solid1978
awesome1984
amazeballs2008
daebak2009
1925 E. Fraser & J. Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 103 Gear, apparatus generally... Also used as a colloquial term for anything giving satisfaction—e.g., ‘That's it, that's the gear!’
1951 Sunday Pictorial 29 Oct. If a guy is ‘gear’, as they call a smart boy, he will dress in a single~breasted..drape jacket.
1963 Guardian 8 Oct. 9/1 The Liverpool Sound..put expressions like ‘it's the gear’ into the mouths of debs... How long has it been since a native expression ousted a transatlantic jargon import like gear did to crazy and judy to chick?
1963 Today 30 Nov. 15 (caption) They're gear! The Beatles leave for London after their triumphant tour of Sweden.
1964 J. Burke Hard Day's Night iii. 71 ‘Gear!’ John jumped up from his seat. ‘Come on, girls, let's have a bit of a dance.’
1964 J. Burke Hard Day's Night iv. 89 Once we even all sat down and wrote those letters saying how gear she was and all that rubbish.
1967 W. Murray Sweet Ride vi. 88 Choo Choo, you're boss! Fab! Gear! Bitchin'!
6. Machinery.
a. A combination of wheels, levers, and other mechanical appliances for a given purpose; esp. the appliances or furnishings connected with the acting portions of any piece of mechanism. Often with some defining word prefixed, as expansion-gear, hand, steering-, valve-, winding-gear: for which see those words.
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > mechanism > [noun] > part of
gear1523
movement1678
moving part1825
1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Surueyeng xx. f. 37 And the mylner shall make all the cost, bothe of the house and the goyng geyre.
1786 T. Jefferson Writings (1859) I. 550 The consumption [of coal] will be increased by the additional geer.
1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 44 Chains have been beneficially introduced as substitutes for straps in driving heavy geer.
1851 Official Descriptive & Illustr. Catal. Great Exhib. I. 135 Model of a steam crane, with travelling gear.
1882 Knowledge No. 19. 397/2 Being caught by the steering gear or front wheel.
1888 F. Hume Madame Midas i. iii. 29 The towers contained the winding gear.
1892 Law Times Rep. 67 251/1 A steamship of 1074 tons net, fitted with steam steering gear.
figurative.1861 London Rev. & Weekly Jrnl. 20 Apr. 434/1 There is considerable friction in our parliamentary gear.1889 J. R. Lowell Latest Ess. (1892) 149 None of these set our thinking gear in motion to..good purpose.
b. Wheels working one upon another, by means of teeth, or otherwise. a train of gears: a set of such wheels. Often preceded by some defining word, as bevel-, crown-, spur-gear (see the first element). double gear (see quot. 1874).
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > wheel > [noun] > cog or gear
cog-wheel1416
main wheel1678
spur-wheel1731
rack wheel1772
spur gear1808
gear1829
gearing1833
spur gearing1844
pitch wheel1854
tooth-wheel1862
gear-wheel1874
maintaining wheel1874
cog1883
1829 Nat. Philos. (Libr. Useful Knowl.) I. Mechanics ii. vii. §70. 30 Wheels are denominated spur, crown, or bevel gear, according to the position or direction of the teeth.
1874 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. I. 726/1 Double-gear, the nests of variable-speed gear-wheels in the head-stock of a lathe.
1881 Metal World No. 22. 340 The moving of the car sets in motion a train of gears, which in turn gives motion to the pencil mechanism, which traverses crosswise of the paper, while the paper itself traverses from the pencil lengthwise at a uniform speed.
c. (See quot. 1874.)
ΚΠ
1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Gear..the running parts of a wheeled vehicle, as the fore-gears, hind-gears, referring to the fore-axle and its wheels, the hind-axle and its wheels.
d. Aeronautics. Short for landing gear n. U.S.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > parts of aircraft > [noun] > landing gear
alighting gear1908
landing gear1911
undercarriage1911
gear1931
undercart1934
tricycle undercarriage1937
main gear1958
1931 J. E. Younger Airplane Constr. & Repair iii. 48 Such a device is called a retractable landing gear. The method is quite practicable provided the pilot does not forget to unfold the gear before landing.
1936 Jrnl. Royal Aeronaut. Soc. 40 275 Call for a maximum permissible time for raising or lowering the undercarriage, although I understand that the U.S. Dept. of Commerce require that a gear should be lowered in 60 seconds or less.
1963 Amer. Speech 38 118 This is accomplished by adding power, raising the gear and flaps, and climbing back to a safe altitude.
7.
a. Machinery. The mechanical arrangements connecting a motor with its work; = gearing n. Hence in, out of gear: in, out of connection with the motor. So to get (also put, set, throw) in (or into, out of) gear.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > order > disorder > in disorder [phrase]
at or on six and sevenOE
out of kinda1375
out of rulea1387
out of tonea1400
out of joint1415
out of nockc1520
out of tracea1529
out of order1530
out of tune1535
out of square1555
out of kilter1582
off the hinges?1608
out of (the) hinges?1608
in, out of gear1814
out of gearing1833
off the rails1848
on the bumc1870
society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > machines which impart power > motor > [noun] > other parts of
gear1814
controller1836
phonic wheel1878
reverser1879
rotor1892
stator1892
brush-holder1894
interpole1907
phonic motor1924
1814 R. Buchanan Pract. Ess. Mill-work iv. 63 When any particular part of machinery is set agoing, it is said among operatives to be set on, or put in gear; when stopped, set off, or put out of gear.
1839 R. S. Robinson Naut. Steam Engine Explained 103 To see what is to be the position of the eccentric pulley, relative to the crank when in gear.
1839 R. S. Robinson Naut. Steam Engine Explained 132 To work three or four strokes by hand prior to throwing the eccentric rod in gear.
1851 Official Descriptive & Illustr. Catal. Great Exhib. II. 233 For the purpose of moving the handles in and out of gear.
1869 Eng. Mech. 19 Mar. 574/2 The..lever..is reversed, so as to throw the shafts..into gear by the action of the..clutch.
1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) II. 13/2 When wheels are in gear there are three teeth of each engaged.
1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) IV. 307/2 The parts which they should hold in position get out of gear.
1885 Law Rep.: Queen's Bench Div. 15 358 A wheel-factory, including the machinery and gear, was mortgaged to the plaintiffs.
1885 Law Rep.: Queen's Bench Div. 15 358 The..driving-belts..could be removed at pleasure when the machinery was thrown out of gear.
figurative.1849 H. Mayo On Truths Pop. Superstit. (1851) 79 The attention..is unlinked from the other faculties, and they are put out of gear.1860 C. Kingsley Misc. (ed. 2) II. 11 An industrial system so out of gear.1861 G. W. Thornbury Life J. M. W. Turner I. 21 In a week or two he began to get into gear and work better in his new harness.1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People v. §4. 241 The whole organization of labour was thrown out of gear.1880 M. E. Braddon Just as I Am xviii I have been out of gear for my ordinary pursuits of late.1886 W. Hooper Sketches Acad. Life 56 He is quite thrown out of gear by every little anomaly.
b. Any of the several sets of gear-wheels in a motor vehicle, bicycle, etc., which can be used to alter the relation between the speed of the engine or driving mechanism and the speed or torque of the driven wheels; also, the relation between the number of revolutions made by a motor vehicle or cycle-wheel and the number of revolutions made by the gear-wheels. high, low, top gear: see the first element.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicles according to means of motion > vehicle moving on wheels > [noun] > parts of vehicle moving on wheels > gear
gear1888
1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 560 Two-speed gears [for tricycles] are becoming general.
1896 F. T. Bidlake Cycling 66 High gear for downhill, low gear for up.
1897 Earl of Suffolk et al. Encycl. Sport I. 268/1 The higher the gear, the further the machine travels at each stroke of the pedals.
1902 H. Sturmey in A. C. Harmsworth et al. Motors & Motor-driving (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) x. 203 When putting a lower gear into operation, as is necessary when climbing a hill.
1902 H. Sturmey in A. C. Harmsworth et al. Motors & Motor-driving (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) x. 204 If the calculated speed of the second gear is, say, eighteen miles per hour.
1907 ‘I. Hay’ Pip ii. ix. 283 Sometimes slowing through a village or changing gear up a hill.
1909 Westm. Gaz. 28 Jan. 4/1 Handcross and Reigate, both of which the Napier can stealthily scale on top-gear and think nothing of it.
1910 Westm. Gaz. 21 Apr. 5/2 The extraordinary top-gear hill-climbing powers of the Ford.
1923 W. E. Dommett Motor Car Mech. (ed. 2) 185 On the top gear with the dog clutches engaged the speeds are equal.
1930 Strand Mag. May 348/1 Trout retired, top gear, into the distance.
1958 Times 19 Aug. 11/6 The three-speed gearbox with a comparatively low second gear which encourages the driver to stay in top.
8. Nautical. Rigging in general; ‘the rigging of any particular spar or sail’ (Adm. Smyth).
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > rigging > [noun]
tacklea1300
tacklingc1422
cordaille1484
riga1572
rigging1594
cordage1598
riggage1627
reeking1640
gear1669
1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. i. 17 See that your main Hall~yards be clear, and all the rest of your Geer clear and cast off.
1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple III. xiii. 163 I seized another [axe], and disengaged the..small gear about the mast.
1860 Mercantile Marine Mag. 7 279 The topsails were reduced by the patent gear to nearly close reefs.
III. Stuff.
9.
a. Goods, movable property, household necessaries and utensils.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > possessions > [noun] > personal or movable property
feec888
goodOE
chateus1297
moblea1325
farec1330
harness1340
gearc1380
plentiesc1384
goods and cattel1418
pelfa1425
testament1424
movables1428
personals1436
stuff1438
cattle1473
cabow1489
chattel1549
chattel personal1552
goods and chattels1576
luggage1624
corporeals1647
effects1657
chose1670
personalities1753
stock1776
plunder1780
personal effects1818
personalty1827
taonga1863
marbles1864
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > [noun] > of a house
attirec1325
harness1340
gearc1380
household1420
stuff1438
household stuff1445
standard?1474
utensil1484
inspreith1488
utensilies1496
household goods1501
insight1522
wardrobe stuff?a1527
housewifery1552
plenishing1561
householdry1570
supellectile1584
household effects1762
sticks of furniture1777
house furnishing1827
houseware1827
ingear1835
supellex1849
household appliance1853
homeware1868
home1887
décor1926
c1380 Eng. Wycliffite Serm. in Sel. Wks. I. 200 Freris and preestis þat..maken riche chirches and housis wiþ oþer gere.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 13797 Do þe to ga, wit all þi ger.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 4938 Sargantz send i son on hand þat in þair gare mi god þai fand.
1413 Pilgr. Sowle (1483) i. xv. 9 I hald it best to cast awey this gere and shape my selue pryuely to fle.
1466 in Manners & Househ. Expenses Eng. (1841) 436 Item, owenge to the chaundelere..for wode, candelles and odre gere for howsold, iij.s. xj.d.
1637 J. Milton Comus 7 Some harmlesse Villager Whom thrift keepes up about his Country geare.
1794 Har'st Rig lvi. 20 For he did gar her sweetly pay For crackit gear.
1865 D. Livingstone & C. Livingstone Narr. Exped. Zambesi x. 216 Then follow wife and daughters with bulky loads of household gear on their heads.
†b. Scottish and northern dialect. Possessions in general, wealth, money. goods and gear = wealth, property. †free gear (see free adj. 23b). Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > possessions > [noun]
goodeOE
auchtOE
havingc1350
facultya1382
substancea1382
propertya1393
haviourc1400
suffisantee1436
aversc1440
propriety1442
livinga1450
goodess1523
gear1535
prog1727
1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) III. 230 Siluer or gold or ony other geir.
1547 in P. F. Tytler Hist. Scotl. (1864) III. 380 I judge him [Argyle] greedy of gear, desirous of authority.
c1565 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1728) 14 Spend his goods and gear.
1571 G. Buchanan Admonitioun Trew Lordis sig. A.3 Ze wer neuer desyrous of blude, geir, nor honour.
a1609 A. Hume Poems (1902) 180 A rasche borrowing..of vther mennis geir.
a1637 B. Jonson Sad Shepherd ii. i. 11 in Wks. (1640) III I am na' Fay..But a good man, that lives o' my awne geere . View more context for this quotation
1637 S. Rutherford Lett. (1863) I. 300 I had not so much free gear when I came to Christ's camp as to buy a sword.
1706 in J. Watson Choice Coll. Scots Poems i. 30 Which made the Laird take up more Gear Than all the Lands or Rigs could bear.
1706 R. Sempill Life Pyper of Kilbarchan xiii His pipes..after wan him gear enough.
1712 J. Arbuthnot John Bull Still in Senses iv. 17 Spending the Goods and Gear that his Fore-Fathers won with the Sweat of their Brows [The speaker is Scotch].
1725 A. Ramsay Gentle Shepherd i. ii His honour maunna want—he poinds your geer.
1788 R. Burns in J. Johnson Scots Musical Museum II. 204 Your daddie's gear maks you sae nice.
1808 J. Mayne Siller Gun (new ed.) ii. 44 Dingwall..Whose modest merit Was sae repress'd for want o' gear, Care crush'd his spirit!
1855 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Yorks. Words 69 ‘Ill gotten gear’, property unjustly obtained.
1884 A. S. Swan Dorothea Kirke vi. 58 That foolish, misguided sister of yours has married an old man for his gear!
c. Things. †Also in plural. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > possessions > [noun] > personal or movable property > personal belongings
thingc1300
geara1400
pertinencea1513
furniture1566
duds1665
equipage1716
paraphernalia1736
belonging1817
iktas1856
personalities1858
personalty1865
parapherna1876
shit1934
a1400 Sir Perc. 214 He wolde schote with his spere Bestes and other gere.
1556 J. Olde tr. R. Gwalther Antichrist f. 124 The God whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and precious stones, and other costly gaires.
1832 R. Southey Ess. II. 13 The appetite for slander must be sharp-set, when it can prey upon such small gear.
†10.
a. A material substance or stuff; in depreciatory sense, rubbish. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > refuse or rubbish > [noun]
wrakea1350
outcastingc1350
rammel1370
rubble1376
mullockc1390
refusec1390
filtha1398
outcasta1398
chaff?a1400
rubbishc1400
wastec1430
drossc1440
raff?1440
rascal1440
murgeonc1450
wrack1472
gear1489
garblec1503
scowl1538
raffle1543
baggage1549
garbage1549
peltry1550
gubbins?1553
lastage1553
scruff1559
retraict1575
ross1577
riddings1584
ket1586
scouring1588
pelf1589
offal1598
rummage1598
dog's meat1606
retriment1615
spitling1620
recrement1622
mundungus1637
sordes1640
muskings1649
rejectament1654
offscouring1655
brat1656
relicts1687
offage1727
litter1730
rejectamenta1795
outwale1825
detritus1834
junk1836
wastements1843
croke1847–78
sculch1847
debris1851
rumble1854
flotsam1861
jetsam1861
pelt1880
offcasting1893
rubbishry1894
littering1897
muckings1898
wastage1898
dreck1905
bruck1929
crap1934
garbo1953
clobber1965
dooky1965
grot1971
tippings-
the world > existence and causation > existence > materiality > [noun] > matter or corporeal substance > a kind of matter
thingOE
matter1340
substancea1393
corsec1420
gear1489
massa1550
quality1583
1489 W. Caxton tr. C. de Pisan Bk. Fayttes of Armes ii. xxxvii. 159 A drinke myxte with suche manere of gere that aftre they had taken hyt they were alle dronken.
1549 H. Latimer 2nd Serm. before Kynges Maiestie 6th Serm. sig. Uiv Of decimations of Anets seade, and Cummyn, and suche gere.
1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 50v The sour gear that is within [the shell of the Citron] is colde and dry.
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball iv. xvi. 470 You shal finde much of this geare amongst Rye.
1603 C. Heydon Def. Iudiciall Astrol. vii. 187 That out of wheat there should spring vp darnell, solders, and smuttie geare.
1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 475 The Bramans marke themselves in their fore~heads..with a kind of yellow geare which they grinde.
1691 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Words (ed. 2) Pref. 5 Gear..is also used for trumpery, rubbish, so as stuffe is.
1800 Larwood Norfolk Dial. 44 (E.D.S. No. 76) The thacker wou'd ha gin har some doctor's geer in a beaker.
1801 H. Macneill Poet. Wks. II. 52 A bottle, prim'd..Wi' somewhat mair than half a gallon O' precious gear.
†b. Corrupt and foul matter; pus. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > suppuration > [noun] > pus or matter
wursomeOE
yousterc725
warec1175
quittorc1300
corrumpciona1340
humour1340
atter1398
mattera1400
pus?a1425
filthiness1525
corruption1526
filth1561
gear1562
sanies1562
baggage1576
purulence1598
suppuration1601
lye1615
congestion1634
colluvies1651
collution1657
colloid1849
purulage1898
1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 131v It [Germander] scoureth out also thicke and watery gear out of the brest.
1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene vi. xii. sig. Kk3 That spat out poyson and gore bloudy gere. View more context for this quotation
1632 tr. G. Bruele Praxis Medicinæ 223 Cholericke, sowre and stinking geere is voyded.
1653 H. More Antidote against Atheism in Coll. Philos. Writings (1712) iii. viii. 113 The wound of his throat gaping, but no gear nor corruption in it.
c. Mining. (See quots.)
ΚΠ
1747 W. Hooson Miners Dict. sig. Gijb Dead, where there is no Ore..Deads are the Gear, or Work got in such dead Places.
1747 W. Hooson Miners Dict. sig. Iivb Gear, a general Name for all Deads, when cut out of the Wholes.
1747 W. Hooson Miners Dict. sig. Qiij We rise with these Pair upwards, drawing up the Gear, and teeming it round about them.
11. figurative. = matter n.1, stuff n.1, in various uses.
a. Discourse, doctrine, talk; also in depreciatory sense, ‘stuff’, nonsense. ? Obsolete exc. archaic.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > speech > [noun] > that which is or can be spoken
speechc897
saw9..
speech971
wordOE
quideOE
wordsOE
wordOE
thingOE
rouna1225
mouthc1225
queatha1250
breathc1300
reasonc1300
speakingsa1325
swarec1325
saying1340
voicec1350
lorea1375
sermonc1385
carpc1400
gear1415
utterancec1454
parol1474
ditty1483
say1571
said1578
dictumc1586
palabra1600
breathing1606
bringinga1616
elocution?1637
rumblea1680
elocutive1821
vocability1841
deliverance1845
deliverment1850
deliverancy1853
verbalization1858
voicing1888
sayable1937
the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > [noun]
magged talea1387
moonshine1468
trumperyc1485
foolishness1531
trash1542
baggage1545
flim-flam1570
gear1570
rubbisha1576
fiddle-faddle1577
stuff1579
fible-fable1581
balductum1593
pill1608
nonsense1612
skimble-skamble1619
porridge1642
mataeology1656
fiddle-come-faddle1663
apple sauce1672
balderdash1674
flummery1749
slang1762
all my eye1763
diddle-daddle1778
(all) my eye (and) Betty Martin1781
twaddle1782
blancmange1790
fudge1791
twiddle-twaddle1798
bothering1803
fee-faw-fum1811
slip-slop1811
nash-gab1816
flitter-tripe1822
effutiation1823
bladderdash1826
ráiméis1828
fiddlededee1843
pickles1846
rot1846
kelter1847
bosh1850
flummadiddle1850
poppycock1852
Barnum1856
fribble-frabble1859
kibosh1860
skittle1864
cod1866
Collyweston1867
punk1869
slush1869
stupidness1873
bilge-water1878
flapdoodle1878
tommyrot1880
ruck1882
piffle1884
flamdoodle1888
razzmatazz1888
balls1889
pop1890
narrischkeit1892
tosh1892
footle1894
tripe1895
crap1898
bunk1900
junk1906
quatsch1907
bilge1908
B.S.1912
bellywash1913
jazz1913
wash1913
bullshit?1915
kid-stakes1916
hokum1917
bollock1919
bullsh1919
bushwa1920
noise1920
bish-bosh1922
malarkey1923
posh1923
hooey1924
shit1924
heifer dust1927
madam1927
baloney1928
horse feathers1928
phonus-bolonus1929
rhubarb1929
spinach1929
toffeea1930
tomtit1930
hockey1931
phoney baloney1933
moody1934
cockalorum1936
cock1937
mess1937
waffle1937
berley1941
bull dust1943
crud1943
globaloney1943
hubba-hubba1944
pish1944
phooey1946
asswipe1947
chickenshit1947
slag1948
batshit1950
goop1950
slop1952
cack1954
doo-doo1954
cobbler1955
horse shit1955
nyamps1955
pony1956
horse manure1957
waffling1958
bird shit1959
codswallop1959
how's your father1959
dog shit1963
cods1965
shmegegge1968
pucky1970
taradiddle1970
mouthwash1971
wank1974
gobshite1977
mince1985
toss1990
arse1993
1415 T. Hoccleve To Sir J. Oldcastle 159 Our fadres medled no thyng of swich gere.
a1529 J. Skelton Speke Parrot in Poet. Wks. (1843) II. 19 For drede ye darre not medyll with suche gere.
1570 B. Googe tr. T. Kirchmeyer Popish Kingdome i. f. 13v I am ashamed here, To weare my pen..about such foolish gere.
1606 J. Day Ile of Guls sig. F1v Was not this stinging geere?
1609 S. Rowlands Famous Hist. Guy Earle of Warwick 55 Why turn me back to conn my gear again.
1624 W. Bedell Copies Certaine Lett. vi. 101 No maruell if this geare could not passe the Presse at Rome.
1689 R. Milward Selden's Table-talk 3 Lord, what Gear do they make of it!
1700 J. Dryden Chaucer's Wife of Bathe's Tale in Fables 480 For Priests with Pray'rs, and other godly Geer, Have made the merry Goblins disappear.
1722 Coll. Misc. Lett. Mist's Weekly Jrnl. I. Pref. p. xii I had a great deal more of this learned Gear from my Friend.
1875 Ld. Tennyson Queen Mary iii. i. 103 Have you had enough Of all this gear?
1895 W. Rye Gloss. Words E. Anglia Gere, unintelligible stuff; or a confused heap.
b. Doings, ‘goings on’. archaic or dialect.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > doing > a proceeding > [noun] > proceedings or doings
workingOE
workOE
workOE
doingsa1387
practica1475
gearc1475
proceeding1524
practice1547
activity1570
courses1592
acting1596
motion1667
ongoings1673
energies1747
deed1788
movement1803
c1475 Partenay 276 Non may on the trust, ne in thy fals gere.
a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xvi. 198 This is well-wroght gere That euer may be.
1546 in State Papers Henry VIII (1852) XI. 140 The French practises now a dayes be but bare geare to other mens practises.
c1616 R. C. Times' Whistle (1871) v. 1883 Brave boyes, this gear doth cotten well.
1652 C. B. Stapylton tr. Herodian Imperiall Hist. iv. 31 Wee shall smart for this unruly geere.
a1806 H. K. White Remains (1807) I. 283 To view our gambols, and our boyish geer.
1831 W. Scott Castle Dangerous i, in Tales of my Landlord 4th Ser. III. 229 Then I hardly see how your ladyship can endure this gear much longer.
1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby He has now taken up with that kind of gear.
1881 E. Lynn Linton My Love! I. 273 We shall have such fun!.. It will be good gear, I can tell you!
†c. A matter, affair, business. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of ideation > topic, subject-matter > affair, business, concern > [noun]
thingeOE
charec897
cause1393
gleea1400
affaira1425
articlea1425
conversement1455
concernment1495
subject?1541
gear1545
concerning1604
concern1659
interest1674
lookout1795
show1797
pidgin1807
put-in1853
chip1896
thang1932
1545 R. Ascham Toxophilus i. f. 21 You handle this gere in dede.
1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 205 Whilest this geare was a brewing.
1594 T. Lodge & R. Greene Looking Glasse sig. D Maister Lawier..I pray you to this geere.
1636 R. James Iter Lancastrense (Chetham Soc.) 97 This worck, this gheere..Was done by daughters of great Charlemaine.
1640 J. Fletcher & J. Shirley Night-walker v. sig. K1v You wo' not to these geere of marriage then?
1823 W. Scott Quentin Durward III. viii. 208 I understand this gear better than you do.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.
a. (In sense 6b.)
(a)
gear-cutter n.
ΚΠ
a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 394/2 Gear Cutter [a machine for cutting the teeth on gear-wheels].
(b)
gear-cutting adj.
ΚΠ
1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 960/1 Gear-cutting Machine, one for making cog-wheels by cutting out the interdental material.
b. (In sense 7.)
(a)
gear-oil n.
ΚΠ
1910 Blackwood's Mag. Nov. 606/1 A black and glutinous compound, which I afterwards learned to recognise as gear-oil.
gear-shaft n.
ΚΠ
1904 A. B. F. Young Compl. Motorist iii. 59 Different sets of gearing, by means of which the gear shaft transmits its motion to the road wheels in different ratios.
1927 Glasgow Herald 30 Nov. 11 The new model..will be of the standard selective gearshaft type.
gear-sleeve n.
ΚΠ
1908 Westm. Gaz. 20 Nov. 4/2 It is arranged with divided gear~sleeve to enable short shafts to be used.
gear-work n.
ΚΠ
1851 Official Descriptive & Illustr. Catal. Great Exhib. II. 220 Occasioning the rapid destruction of the gear-work through which the power is transmitted.
(b)
gear-driven adj.
ΚΠ
1906 Westm. Gaz. 26 Mar. 10/2 A gear-driven car.
1906 Daily Chron. 14 Nov. 9/3 The water circulates by a gear-driven pump.
c. (In sense 8.)
gear-block n.
ΚΠ
1851 Official Descriptive & Illustr. Catal. Great Exhib. II. 340 Lower yards filled with inventor's slings and portable gear-blocks.
d. (In sense 9b.)
(a)
gear-gatherer n.
ΚΠ
1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. Gear-gatherer, a money-making man.
(b)
gear-grasping adj.
ΚΠ
1827 W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd 40 He smasht and smote thae men o' sin For their gear-graspin' greed.
C2.
gear-box n. the case enclosing the gearing of a bicycle, motor vehicle, etc.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicle propelled by feet > [noun] > cycle > parts and equipment of cycles > gears > gear-box
gear-box1887
gear-case1896
society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > parts and equipment of motor vehicles > [noun] > transmission > specific gear > gear-box
gear-box1887
box1891
gear-case1896
manual1962
autobox1977
1887 Viscount Bury & G. L. Hillier Cycling (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) xiii. 385 Otherwise the effect of the same amount of resistance on each wheel will become unequally operative in the gear-box.
1902 W. W. Beaumont in A. C. Harmsworth et al. Motors & Motor-driving (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) x. 208 Many cars have..a secondary frame to which the motor and gear-box, &c., are attached.
1909 Chambers's Jrnl. Jan. 62/2 There is a centrifugal governor mounted on or driven from one of the rotating shafts behind the gear-box, and its speed of rotation is always in fixed relation to that of the road-wheels.
1957 Times 2 July (Agric. Suppl.) p. viii/4 Other new features [of the Ferguson 35 tractor] include the six-speed gear-box.
gear-box-less adj.
ΚΠ
1909 Westm. Gaz. 14 Sept. 4/3 A gear-box-less ‘Sheffield-Simplex’ car.
1963 A. Bird & F. Hutton-Stott Veteran Motor Car Pocketbk. 45 A 45 h.p. ‘gearbox-less’ car came on the market.
gear-case n.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicle propelled by feet > [noun] > cycle > parts and equipment of cycles > gears > gear-box
gear-box1887
gear-case1896
society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > parts and equipment of motor vehicles > [noun] > transmission > specific gear > gear-box
gear-box1887
box1891
gear-case1896
manual1962
autobox1977
1896 G. B. Shaw Let. 6 Mar. (1965) I. 608 Their net price, new, with gear case, saddle &c, complete is £25.
1897 Daily News 16 Sept. 3/4 There was a black gear-case instead of a transparent one.
1902 H. Sturmey in A. C. Harmsworth et al. Motors & Motor-driving (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) x. 206 The gear-case should be kept sufficiently full of lubricant to enable the lower edges of the gear wheels to be constantly passing through it.
gear-change n. (a) the action of changing gear; (b) = gear-lever n.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > driving or operating a vehicle > [noun] > driving or operating a motor vehicle > operating clutch or gears
change1895
downchange1907
gear-changing1909
change-down1910
gear-change1912
change up1913
shift1915
declutching1925
slipping1925
upshift1951
double-clutching1954
upshifting1956
society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > parts and equipment of motor vehicles > [noun] > lever or mechanism for changing gear
gear-lever1904
shifter1910
gear-change1912
shift1914
gear stick1920
shift-lever1920
gear-shift1926
stick1952
shift-stick1968
1912 Motor Man. (ed. 14) v. 169 (heading) A method for obtaining a ‘silent’ gear change.
1955 Times 5 July 5/7 The excellent gearchange..is effected by a short central lever.
1967 Autocar 5 Oct. 73/3 With the gearchange switched from the left of the cockpit to the right.
gear-changing n.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > driving or operating a vehicle > [noun] > driving or operating a motor vehicle > operating clutch or gears
change1895
downchange1907
gear-changing1909
change-down1910
gear-change1912
change up1913
shift1915
declutching1925
slipping1925
upshift1951
double-clutching1954
upshifting1956
1909 Westm. Gaz. 23 Feb. 4/1 The beginner..can practise the art of gear-changing on the hill.
gear-lever n. the lever by means of which one changes gear.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > parts and equipment of motor vehicles > [noun] > lever or mechanism for changing gear
gear-lever1904
shifter1910
gear-change1912
shift1914
gear stick1920
shift-lever1920
gear-shift1926
stick1952
shift-stick1968
1904 Motor Man. (ed. 6) ix. 97 Put the gear lever on to the next speed.
1925 Morris Owner's Man. 10 Get the ‘feel’ of the gear lever with the engine and car stationary.
a1951 D. Stewart in Austral. Short. Stories (1951) 409 Placing his hand on her knee as, doubtless in error for the gear-lever, he so often does.
gear-pump n. a pump in which liquid is drawn in by one gear-wheel and expelled by another gear-wheel in mesh with the first.
ΚΠ
1922 Automobile Engineer Ref. Bk. 202/1 Gear pump.
1933 Rutherford in Proc. Royal Soc. A. 141 261 The plug..is cooled by a rapid stream of transformer oil supplied by a gear-pump through insulating tubes.
gear ratio n. the ratio between the rates at which the last and the first wheels of a train of gears rotate.
ΚΠ
1909 Westm. Gaz. 16 Nov. 5/2 The gear ratios are given as: 1st, 15 to 1; 2nd, 8.4 to 1; and on the top-drive 4.7.
1915 A. B. F. Young & W. G. Aston Compl. Motorist (ed. 8) iii. 81 An arrangement of toothed pinions, which allow two, three or four different gear ratios to be employed as the case may be.
1959 ‘Motor’ Man. (ed. 36) iv. 74 The gear ratios usually quoted..take also into account the reduction in the final drive.
1959 ‘Motor’ Man. (ed. 36) iv. 91 Reference was made to an overdrive unit... Its purpose is to provide an extra gear ratio, higher than direct drive, so that quiet and economical cruising is possible.
gear-shift n. originally U.S. = gear-lever n.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > parts and equipment of motor vehicles > [noun] > lever or mechanism for changing gear
gear-lever1904
shifter1910
gear-change1912
shift1914
gear stick1920
shift-lever1920
gear-shift1926
stick1952
shift-stick1968
1926 Amer. Speech 1 686/2 American: gear shift... English: change speed lever.
1959 Observer 12 Apr. 3/3 The steering-column gear-shift..is partly cable-operated.
gear-wheel n. (a) a cog-wheel; (b) (in a bicycle, etc.) the cog-wheel by means of which the motion of the pedals is transmitted to the axle.
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > wheel > [noun] > cog or gear
cog-wheel1416
main wheel1678
spur-wheel1731
rack wheel1772
spur gear1808
gear1829
gearing1833
spur gearing1844
pitch wheel1854
tooth-wheel1862
gear-wheel1874
maintaining wheel1874
cog1883
1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Gear-wheel, any cog-wheel, whether crown, spur, internal-cogged, bevel, or lantern, is a gear-wheel.
1891 Daily News 6 June 6/1 The engine is a two-cylinder horizontal one, and drives a gear-wheel.
1892 Dublin Rev. Apr. 437 The mirror is fixed to a gear-wheel driven off the spindle of a small alternating electric motor.
1904 A. B. F. Young Compl. Motorist iii. 59 Changes of speed in the car have therefore to be provided for by different sets of gearing... The usual way of accomplishing this is by means of gear wheels.

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slang (chiefly British). Drugs, narcotics; (also) a particular drug, esp. marijuana or heroin.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > an intoxicating drug > [noun] > a) narcotic drug(s)
opiate?a1425
dope1886
hop1887
Peter1899
quill1916
junk1921
narcotic1926
stuff1929
mojo1935
sugar1935
gear1954
narco1954
sauce1975
opie1992
Scooby Snack1996
the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > an intoxicating drug > [noun] > a) narcotic drug(s) > marijuana or cannabis
bhang1598
hashish1598
cannabis1765
ganja1800
Indian hemp1803
sabzi1804
cannabin1843
deiamba1851
charas1860
liamba1861
hemp1870
cannabis resin1871
marijuana1874
kef1878
locoweed1898
weed1917
Mary Ann1925
mootah1926
muggle1926
Mary Jane1928
Mary Warner1933
Mary and Johnny1935
Indian hay1936
mu1936
mezz1937
moocah1937
grass1938
jive1938
pot1938
mary1940
reefer1944
rope1944
smoke1946
hash1948
pod1952
gear1954
green1957
smoking weed1957
boo1959
Acapulco1965
doobie1967
Mary J1967
cheeba1971
Maui Wowie1971
4201974
Maui1977
pakalolo1977
spliff1977
draw1979
kush1979
resin1980
bud1982
swag1986
puff1989
chronic1992
schwag1993
hydro1995
the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > an intoxicating drug > [noun] > a) narcotic drug(s) > morphine, cocaine, or heroin > heroin
heroin1898
junk1921
dynamite1924
schmeck1932
smack1942
horse1950
gear1954
boy1955
sugar1956
chiva1964
scag1967
hoss1968
scat1970
P-funk1982
black tar1983
1954 Everybody's 12 June 11 Drugs are big business. Those who deal in them..may call them dope, or ‘kif’, or ‘charge’ or ‘gear’ or ‘tea’.
1967 M. M. Glatt et al. Drug Scene in Great Brit. v. 55 Cannabis, variously known as hashish, charge, hemp, marijuana, gear, kief, [etc.].
1989 in R. Graef Talking Blues v. 179 If you had £1000 now you could go and buy an ounce of smack,..cut in your ounce of filler and you've got £2000 worth of gear, Brilliant!
1993 I. Welsh Trainspotting (1994) 300 Grass, with some opium in it, right?.. It actually smells like good gear.
2006 DJ 8 Nov. 51/3 The whole bothersome business of hanging people for trafficking gear.

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figurative. up a gear: at a higher level. Usually in to move (also shift, step, etc.) up a gear and variants: to perform at, or move to, a higher level; to become more fervent or intense. Cf. top gear n. 2a.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > improvement > [phrase]
—— would be none (also would not be) the worse for1795
up a gear1971
the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > improvement > [adverb] > to higher level
upc888
up a gear1971
1971 Times 24 June 8/4 As Edrich, cutting well, prepared to move up a gear, he was out playing a ball from Michael Buss off his legs to Snow at square leg.
1977 Washington Post (Nexis) 29 Dec. b1 What a break! Your career's up a gear and it's getting hot.
1993 I. Welsh Trainspotting 74 We cannae really hurt each other or feel force on our fists or bodies. Too wasted. Mind you, ah step up a gear when ah sees the blood flowing fae my nose onto my bare chest, and ower the table.
2001 Guardian 17 July i. 21/4 Competition in Britain's postal industry shifted up a gear yesterday.

Draft additions June 2015

Mountaineering and Rock Climbing. Equipment, such as nuts, hexes, camming devices, etc., typically placed by a lead climber, in order to make a route secure, and esp. to limit the height of a potential fall; protection.In quot. 2002, a rock feature which enables such equipment to be securely placed.
ΚΠ
1971 Climbers' Club Jrnl. No. 95 173 A leader..had better be prepared for anything to happen and take a full armoury of ‘modern gear’ with him, micro nuts on wire slings etc.
1998 Rock & Ice Sept. 57/1 The 110-degree wall to which I was clinging was so pocked..that it was nearly impossible to tell whether I'd soon be able to place more gear.
2002 J. Simpson Beckoning Silence (2003) 24 Don't let him move if he can't find any good gear, not an inch. It took forty-five minutes of experimentation before Tat managed to lodge a tiny wired metal wedge..into the crack below the roof.
2014 J. Long & P. Croft Trad Climber's Bible iii. 18/1 You can't move fast if your gear is a jumble of knotted slings and mismatched widgets... So keep that gear straight.

Draft additions March 2017

slang. to get one's arse (also ass, butt, etc.) in (also into) gear and variants: to start to do something with energy, urgency, or purposefulness; to rouse oneself from inactivity or idleness. Often in the imperative: ‘hurry up’, ‘get a move on’.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > undertaking > beginning action or activity > begin action or activity [verb (intransitive)]
beginc1000
onginOE
aginOE
ginc1175
to go tillc1175
to take onc1175
comsea1225
fanga1225
to go toc1275
i-ginc1275
commencec1320
to get (also get down, go, go adown, set, set down) to workc1400
to lay to one's hand(sc1405
to put to one's hand (also hands)c1410
to set toc1425
standa1450
to make to1563
to fall to it1570
to start out1574
to fall to1577
to run upon ——1581
to break off1591
start1607
to set in1608
to set to one's hands1611
to put toa1616
to fall ona1625
in1633
to fall aboard1642
auspicatea1670
to set out1693
to enter (into) the fray1698
open1708
to start in1737
inchoate1767
to set off1774
go1780
start1785
to on with1843
to kick off1857
to start in on1859
to steam up1860
to push off1909
to cut loose1923
to get (also put) the show on the road1941
to get one's arse in gear1948
the world > action or operation > undertaking > beginning action or activity > begin action or activity [verb (intransitive)] > bestir oneself
arisec825
to start upc1275
stirc1275
shifta1400
awakea1450
to put out one's fins?1461
wake1523
to shake one's ears1580
rouse1589
bestira1616
awaken1768
arouse1822
waken1825
to wake snakes1835
roust1841
to flax round1884
to get busy1896
to get one's arse in gear1948
1948 N. Mailer Naked & Dead iii. viii. 602 We're gonna get moving in five minutes so you all better get your ass in gear.
1966 B. Garfield Last Bridge v. 43 God damn it, quit jaw-assing over this telephone and get your balls in gear.
1980 Washington Post 23 May d1/3 When a guy goes out and plays when he's hurt, the healthy guys have to look at themselves and say, I'd better get my butt in gear and start playing.
1994 J. Cope Head-On (1999) 53 I painted the stairway... I painted the bannister... I really got my ass in gear.
1998 Darts World Mar. 24/2 After going 2–0 down Mike put his ‘rear into gear’ and played out of his skin to pull off a 3–2 win.
2004 Herald Sun (Melbourne) (Nexis) 20 Sept. 7 I find it very strange that they suddenly get their bums into gear after I spoke to the media about my case.
2014 R. Draper Cold Winds in Autumn xxxvii. 215 Get your arse in gear, hotshot, we've been summoned to the inner sanctum in one hour.

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gear stick n. a lever used to engage or change gear in a motor vehicle; = gear-lever n. at Compounds 2.Relatively rare in North American use, with gear shift being more usual; however, stick without gear as modifier is used in North America in similar sense (cf. stick n.1 11l).
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > parts and equipment of motor vehicles > [noun] > lever or mechanism for changing gear
gear-lever1904
shifter1910
gear-change1912
shift1914
gear stick1920
shift-lever1920
gear-shift1926
stick1952
shift-stick1968
1920 Evening Tribune (Albert Lea, Minnesota) 12 May 3/1 The long-necked gear stick [is] on the outside where the big feet of the driver cannot disturb it.
1967 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 18 Feb. p. xxiv (advt.) Gear-stick is short and positive whether you have the all-synchro, four-speed gearbox or optional automatic transmission.
1990 Which? Guide New & Used Cars 15/3 Pedal and gearstick positions criticised by some drivers.
2005 L. Dean This Human Season (2006) xxxi. 199 She..shoved the gear stick into first and they careened down the hill.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

gearv.

Brit. /ɡɪə/, U.S. /ɡɪ(ə)r/
Forms: Middle English gere, Middle English Scottish geir, 1600s–1800s geer(e, (1600s geare), 1500s– gear.
Etymology: Middle English geren , < gere gear n. (Old English had gierwan , preterite gierede to equip, clothe, < Old Germanic *garwu- ready, yare adj.).
†1. transitive. To adorn; to array; to dress. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > providing with clothing > provide with clothing [verb (transitive)]
wrya901
clothec950
shride971
aturnc1220
begoa1225
array1297
graith1297
agraithc1300
geara1325
cleadc1325
adightc1330
apparel1362
back1362
shape1362
attirea1375
parela1375
tirea1375
rayc1390
addressa1393
coverc1394
aguisea1400
scredea1400
shrouda1400
bedightc1400
buskc1400
harnessc1400
hatterc1400
revesta1449
able1449
dressa1450
reparel?c1450
adub?1473
endue?a1475
afaite1484
revestera1500
beclothe1509
trimc1516
riga1535
invest1540
vesture1555
suit1577
clad1579
investure1582
vest1582
deck1587
habit1594
to make ready1596
caparison1597
skin1601
shadow1608
garment1614
riga1625
raiment1656
garb1673
equip1695
to fit out1722
encase1725
tog1793
trick1821
to fig out1825
enclothe1832
toilet1842
to get up1858
habilitate1885
tailor1885
kit1919
a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 2441 [I]osep dede hise lich faire geren, Wassen, and riche-like smeren, And spice-like swete smaken.
c1350 Parl. 3 Ages 122 He was gerede all in grene.
c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness l. 1568 He schal be gered ful gaye in gounes of porpre.
1691 J. Ray N. Country Words in Coll. Eng. Words (ed. 2) 30 To Geer, or Gear, to dress. Snogly gear'd, neatly dressed.
2. To equip. archaic.
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > military equipment > arming or equipping with weapons > arm or equip [verb (transitive)]
weaponc1000
aturnc1220
armc1275
atil1297
attire1297
enarmc1320
apparelc1325
tirec1330
garnish?a1400
stuff?a1400
gearc1400
relieve1487
to set forthc1515
to arm out1533
munition1579
c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 791 Garyteȝ ful gaye gered bi-twene, Wyth mony luflych loupe.
1456 Sc. Acts Jas. II (1814) II. 45/2 It is ordanyt þt all maner of man þt has landis or gudis be redy horsit and geryt.
1833 Fraser's Mag. 8 650 We accordingly geared ourself, and switch in hand..sallied out.
figurative.c1500 Robert Deuyll in W. J. Thoms Coll. Early Prose Romances (1828) I. 56 He dyde helpe hym for to gere and fortefye the Crysten fayth.
3. To harness (a draught animal). Also with up, and absol.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > general equipment > [verb (transitive)] > harness or yoke
yokeOE
harness13..
cart-saddle1377
join1377
couple1393
enharness1490
benda1522
bind1535
span1550
team1552
spang1580
inyoke1595
trace1605
enclose?1615
gear1638
to get in1687
reharness1775
reyoke1813
to hook up1825
inspan1834
hitch1844
pole1846
stock1909
1638 F. Junius Painting of Ancients 319 Paine of the painter..for it is no small trouble, in my opinion, to geare foure horses together, and not so much as to confound any of their legges.
1640 G. Abbot Whole Bk. Iob Paraphr. xxxix. 248/2 Canst thou tether or geere him like a horse?
1652 W. Blith Eng. Improver Improved xxviii. 196 The Plough-man must have a little regard to his Teem or Draught, and to the well geering or ordering them.
1807 Z. M. Pike Acct. Exped. Sources Mississippi (1810) 50 (note) My sleds were such as are frequently seen about farmers' yards..in which two men were geared abreast.
1856 C. W. Upham J. C. Frémont ii. 55 (Funk) We were ready to depart; the tents were struck, the mules geared up, and our horses saddled.
1877 F. Ross et al. Gloss. Words Holderness (at cited word) It's about time we was off ti gear.
1886 R. Holland Gloss. Words County of Chester Gear or gear up, to put harness on a horse.
4.
a. To put (machinery) into gear (see gear n. 7); to connect by gearing. Also figurative, to adjust, correct or co-ordinate; spec. to adjust or adapt (something) to a particular system, situation, etc.; to bring into dependence, conformity or harmony; frequently in passive. to gear up (see quot. 1882); so to gear down, to gear level.
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > wheel > furnish with wheel(s) [verb (transitive)] > (dis)connect by gearing
ungear1828
gear1851
rack1867
the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > adaptation or adjustment > adapt or adjust [verb (transitive)] > adapt or adjust to
attemper1393
temper1530
sort1561
accommodate1579
square1583
commodate1611
contemperate1656
gear1900
1851 Official Descriptive & Illustr. Catal. Great Exhib. IV. 1184 Another feature in the machine is for gearing and pulling out of gear the cogs.
1868 Pall Mall Gaz. 15 July 10 The spindle is geared to a system of toothed wheelwork.
1879 W. Thomson & P. G. Tait Treat. Nat. Philos. (new ed.) I: Pt. i. 479 The several shafts, with their axes all parallel, are geared together.
1882 Knowledge 10 Mar. 397/2 About two years since, most of the tricycles which were driven by means of a chain were geared up—that is, the driving wheels were made to go round faster than the pedals..Now, most of the best riders agree that tricycles should be geared down.
1883 Knowledge 22 June 368/1 For average riders these [tricycles] might be geared level.
1895 Daily News 15 May 7/4 Parts necessarily exposed for the purposes of cleaning, lubricating, gearing, or altering the arrangements of a machine.
1900 J. London Let. 21 Jan. (1966) 85 The tongue is too often geared at too high a pitch to adequately carry on its labors.
1937 Time 22 Feb. 26 That part of John Meade's Woman which is geared to these phenomena is an effectively written, well-photographed slice of U.S. industrial history.
1945 Reader's Digest July 13/1 Every country's production had been geared to an intricate system of German demands and supplies.
1958 Spectator 22 Aug. 249/1 This might have been effective in an entire [ballet] production geared to the Bolshoi interpretation.
1962 Sunday Times 10 June (Colour Suppl.) 10 Authors', composers' and other royalties are often closely geared to recording rights.
1969 Times 31 Jan. 11/8 The rate of the addition reaction is somehow geared to the rate of growth of the cell as a whole.
b. intransitive. Of a toothed wheel, or its teeth: To fit exactly into; to be in gear, so as to work smoothly with.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > wheel > of wheel: operate [verb (intransitive)] > of teeth or toothed wheel: be in gear
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1735 Philos. Trans. 1733–4 (Royal Soc.) 38 Engraving following p. 404 The loose Wallowers, whose turn'd rounds geer truly with ye Coggs in ye great Wheel.
1848 Tait's Edinb. Mag. 15 844 Carrying an angle-wheel, into which two others gear.
1870 Eng. Mech. 18 Mar. 652/3 This bevel gears with a horizontal bevel underneath the base.
1881 Anderson in Nature No. 626. 619 Two circular frames..with teeth cut in their edges, are mounted, so that the teeth gear into each other, and they can rotate freely, but in opposite directions.
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