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A shaft that oscillates on its journals, instead of revolving, -- usually carrying levers by means of which it receives and communicates reciprocating motion, as in the valve gear of some steam engines; -- called also rocker, rocking shaft, and way shaft.
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.
Spur gearing having teeth slanting across the face of the wheel, sometimes slanting in opposite directions from the middle.
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v. t.
To strip of harness; to loose from harness or gear; as, to unharness horses or oxen.
n.
Old, condemned canvas, rope, etc., unfit for use except in chafing gear.
n.
Dress; gear; ornaments.
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.
n.
A segment gear.
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An apparatus for performing a special function; gearing; as, the feed gear of a lathe.
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A piece of wood or stiff hide placed over shrouds and other rigging to prevent chafe by the running gear.
v. t.
To strip of gear; to unharness; to throw out of gear.
v. t.
To provide with gearing.
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Engagement of parts with each other; as, in gear; out of gear.
v. t.
To dress; to put gear on; to harness.
n.
A short revolving screw, the threads of which drive, or are driven by, a worm wheel by gearing into its teeth or cogs. See Illust. of Worm gearing, below.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Gear
v. t.
To furnish with apparatus or gear; to fit with tackling.
imp. & p. p.
of Gear
n.
A toothed wheel, or cogwheel; as, a spur gear, or a bevel gear; also, toothed wheels, collectively.
v. i.
To be in, or come into, gear.
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