Word Meaning

gear definition and meaning

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.

Crossword clues for gear

- Be changeable
- Clothes (coll)
- Clothing
- Equipment
- equipment required for a task or sport
- Implements
- Kit’s cogwheel
- Manual driver's selection
- Manual driver’s selection
- Rigging
- Tackle, fishing ...
- Toothed wheel
- You have to engage one to drive