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gear-wheel

gear-wheel is the alternative spelling of gear wheel.

Meaning of gear wheel

Noun

gear wheel (plural gear wheels)

  1. A wheel with a toothed rim, intended to engage with others, or similar equipment, to form a gear.
    • Holonym: gearset
    Synonyms:
    cog wheel, cogwheel, cog, gear

Forms of gear-wheel

pluralgear-wheels

Questions about gear-wheel

What is gear-wheel the alternative spelling of?
Gear-wheel is the alternative spelling of gear wheel.

Words near gear-wheel in the dictionary

  1. gear up
  2. gear wheel
  3. gear wheels
  4. gear-up landing
  5. gear-up landings
  6. gear-wheel
  7. gear-wheels
  8. gearbox
  9. gearboxed
  10. gearboxes
  11. gearcase

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gear-wheel (page history and authors); gear wheel (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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