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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..

Bevel Gear :: Bevel gear () A kind of gear in which the two wheels working together lie in different planes, and have their teeth cut at right angles to the surfaces of two cones whose apices coincide with the point where the axes of the wheels would meet..

Gear :: Gear (n.) A toothed wheel, or cogwheel; as, a spur gear, or a bevel gear; also, toothed wheels, collectively..

Ungear :: Ungear (v. t.) To strip of gear; to unharness; to throw out of gear.

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

Gear :: Gear (n.) Engagement of parts with each other; as, in gear; out of gear..

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

Gearing :: Gearing (n.) The parts by which motion imparted to one portion of an engine or machine is transmitted to another, considered collectively; as, the valve gearing of locomotive engine; belt gearing; esp., a train of wheels for transmitting and varying motion in machinery..

Gear :: Gear (n.) Whatever is prepared for use or wear; manufactured stuff or material.

Cogwheel :: Cogwheel (n.) A wheel with cogs or teeth; a gear wheel. See Illust. of Gearing.

Headgear :: Headgear (n.) Apparatus above ground at the mouth of a mine or deep well.

Odontograph :: Odontograph (n.) An instrument for marking or laying off the outlines of teeth of gear wheels.

Hooke''s Gearing :: Hooke's gearing () Spur gearing having teeth slanting across the face of the wheel, sometimes slanting in opposite directions from the middle..

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..

Flank :: Flank (n.) That part of the acting surface of a gear wheel tooth that lies within the pitch line.

Gearing :: Gearing (n.) Harness.

Crab :: Crab (a.) A form of windlass, or geared capstan, for hauling ships into dock, etc..

Perch :: Perch (n.) A pole connecting the fore gear and hind gear of a spring carriage; a reach.

Jack :: "Jack (n.) A system of gearing driven by a horse power, for multiplying speed..

Gear :: Gear (n.) The harness of horses or cattle; trapping.

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