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Dent :: Dent (n.) A tooth, as of a card, a gear wheel, etc..

Interdental :: Interdental (a.) Situated between teeth; as, an interdental space, the space between two teeth in a gear wheel..

Gear :: Gear (n.) Clothing; garments; ornaments.

Gear :: Gear (n.) Warlike accouterments.

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

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

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..

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

Gearing :: Gearing (n.) Harness.

Gear :: Gear (n.) See 1st Jeer (b).

Drawgear :: Drawgear (n.) A harness for draught horses.

Headgear :: Headgear (n.) Headdress.

Engage :: Engage (v. i.) To be in gear, as two cogwheels working together..

Gear :: Gear (n.) Anything worthless; stuff; nonsense; rubbish.

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

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

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..

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..

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..

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

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