Meaning Of 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.