GEARINGS

Proper noun

Gearings

plural of Gearing

Anagrams

• Gagniers, Grinages, gag reins, greasing, snaggier

Noun

gearings

plural of gearing

Anagrams

• Gagniers, Grinages, gag reins, greasing, snaggier

Source: Wiktionary

GEARING

Gear"ing, n.

1. Harness.

2. (Mach.)

Definition: 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. Frictional gearing. See under Frictional.

– Gearing chain, an endless chain transmitted motion from one sprocket wheel to another. See Illust. of Chain wheel.

– Spur gearing, gearing in which the teeth or cogs are ranged round either the concave or the convex surface (properly the latter) of a cylindrical wheel; -- for transmitting motion between parallel shafts, etc.

GEAR

Gear, n. Etym: [OE. gere, ger, AS. gearwe clothing, adornment, armor, fr. gearo, gearu, ready, yare; akin to OHG. garawi, garwi ornament, dress. See Yare, and cf. Garb dress.]

1. Clothing; garments; ornaments. Array thyself in thy most gorgeous gear. Spenser.

2. Goods; property; household stuff. Chaucer. Homely gear and common ware. Robynson (More's Utopia)

3. Whatever is prepared for use or wear; manufactured stuff or material. Clad in a vesture of unknown gear. Spenser.

4. The harness of horses or cattle; trapping.

5. Warlike accouterments. [Scot.] Jamieson.

6. Manner; custom; behavior. [Obs.] Chaucer.

7. Business matters; affairs; concern. [Obs.] Thus go they both together to their gear. Spenser.

8. (Mech.) (a) A toothed wheel, or cogwheel; as, a spur gear, or a bevel gear; also, toothed wheels, collectively. (b) An apparatus for performing a special function; gearing; as, the feed gear of a lathe. (c) Engagement of parts with each other; as, in gear; out of gear.

9. pl. (Naut.)

Definition: See 1st Jeer (b).

10. Anything worthless; stuff; nonsense; rubbish. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Wright. That servant of his that confessed and uttered this gear was an honest man. Latimer. Bever gear. See Bevel gear.

– Core gear, a mortise gear, or its skeleton. See Mortise wheel, under Mortise.

– Expansion gear (Steam Engine), the arrangement of parts for cutting off steam at a certain part of the stroke, so as to leave it to act upon the piston expansively; the cut-off. See under Expansion.

– Feed gear. See Feed motion, under Feed, n.

– Gear cutter, a machine or tool for forming the teeth of gear wheels by cutting.

– Gear wheel, any cogwheel.

– Running gear. See under Running.

– To throw in, or out of, gear (Mach.), to connect or disconnect (wheelwork or couplings, etc.); to put in, or out of, working relation.

Gear v. t. [imp. & p. p. Geared; p. pr. & vb. n. Gearing.]

1. To dress; to put gear on; to harness.

2. (Mach.)

Definition: To provide with gearing. Double geared, driven through twofold compound gearing, to increase the force or speed; -- said of a machine.

Gear, v. i. (Mach.)

Definition: To be in, or come into, gear.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition