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Gear :: Gear (n.) Business matters; affairs; concern.

Harness :: Harness (n.) The equipment of a draught or carriage horse, for drawing a wagon, coach, chaise, etc.; gear; tackling..

Tackle :: Tackle (n.) Any instruments of action; an apparatus by which an object is moved or operated; gear; as, fishing tackle, hunting tackle; formerly, specifically, weapons..

Dashpot :: Dashpot (n.) A pneumatic or hydraulic cushion for a falling weight, as in the valve gear of a steam engine, to prevent shock..

Geering :: Geering () See Gear, Gearing..

Segment :: Segment (n.) A segment gear.

Cut-off :: Cut-off (n.) The valve gearing or mechanism by which steam is cut off from entering the cylinder of a steam engine after a definite point in a stroke, so as to allow the remainder of the stroke to be made by the expansive force of the steam already let in. See Expansion gear, under Expansion..

Engagement :: Engagement (n.) The state of being in gear; as, one part of a clutch is brought into engagement with the other part..

Crab :: Crab (a.) A movable winch or windlass with powerful gearing, used with derricks, etc..

Gear :: Gear (n.) Manner; custom; behavior.

Cog :: Cog (n.) A tooth, cam, or catch for imparting or receiving motion, as on a gear wheel, or a lifter or wiper on a shaft; originally, a separate piece of wood set in a mortise in the face of a wheel..

Engage :: Engage (v. t.) To come into gear with; as, the teeth of one cogwheel engage those of another, or one part of a clutch engages the other part..

Gear :: Gear (v. t.) To provide with gearing.

Rig :: Rig (v. t.) To furnish with apparatus or gear; to fit with tackling.

Gear :: Gear (v. t.) To dress; to put gear on; to harness.

Millwork :: Millwork (n.) The shafting, gearing, and other driving machinery of mills..

Gear :: Gear (n.) Warlike accouterments.

Gear :: Gear (v. i.) To be in, or come into, gear..

Lobe :: Lobe (n.) The projecting part of a cam wheel or of a non-circular gear wheel.

Link Motion :: Link motion () A valve gear, consisting of two eccentrics with their rods, giving motion to a slide valve by an adjustable connecting bar, called the link, in such a way that the motion of the engine can be reversed, or the cut-off varied, at will; -- used very generally in locomotives and marine engines..

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