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geare

geare is the obsolete form of gear.

Meaning of gear

Noun

gear (countable and uncountable, plural gears)

  1. (uncountable) Equipment or paraphernalia, especially that used for an athletic endeavor.
  2. Clothing; garments.
    • Aray thy selfe in her most gorgeous geare1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 26
  3. (obsolete) Goods; property; household items.
    • Homely gear and common ware.1551, Thomas More, “(please specify the Internet Archive page)”, in Raphe Robynson [i.e., Ralph Robinson], transl., A Fruteful, and Pleasaunt Worke of the Best State of a Publyque Weale, and of the...
  4. (countable) A wheel, wheel segment, or bar with grooves (teeth) engraved on the outer circumference, such that two such devices can interlock and convey motion from one to the other.
    • Near-synonyms: (wheel types) cog, cogwheel, gear wheel, gearwheel
  5. (countable) A particular combination or choice of interlocking gears, such that a particular gear ratio is achieved; often selected via a shifter.
    1. (countable) A configuration of the transmission of a motor car so as to achieve a particular ratio of engine to axle torque.

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Forms of geare

pluralgeares

Questions about geare

What is geare the obsolete form of?
Geare is the obsolete form of gear.

Words near geare in the dictionary

  1. gearchange
  2. gearchanges
  3. Geard
  4. geardo
  5. geardos
  6. geare
  7. geared
  8. geared down
  9. geared to
  10. geared towards
  11. geared turbofan

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