Gear1. (n.) Clothing; garments; ornaments.
2. (n.) Goods; property; household stuff.
3. (n.) Whatever is prepared for use or wear; manufactured stuff or material.
4. (n.) The harness of horses or cattle; trapping.
5. (n.) Warlike accouterments.
6. (n.) Manner; custom; behavior.
7. (n.) Business matters; affairs; concern.
8. (n.) A toothed wheel, or cogwheel; as, a spur gear, or a bevel gear; also, toothed wheels, collectively.
9. (n.) An apparatus for performing a special function; gearing; as, the feed gear of a lathe.
10. (n.) Engagement of parts with each other; as, in gear; out of gear.
11. (n.) See 1st Jeer (b).
12. (n.) Anything worthless; stuff; nonsense; rubbish.
13. (v. t.) To dress; to put gear on; to harness.
14. (v. t.) To provide with gearing.
15. (v. i.) To be in, or come into, gear.
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