Gear

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1. Noun

Clothing; garments; ornaments.

2. Noun

Goods; property; household stuff.

3. Noun

Whatever is prepared for use or wear; manufactured stuff or material.

4. Noun

The harness of horses or cattle; trapping.

5. Noun

Warlike accouterments.

6. Noun

Manner; custom; behavior.

7. Noun

Business matters; affairs; concern.

8. Noun

A toothed wheel, or cogwheel; as, a spur gear, or a bevel gear; also, toothed wheels, collectively.

9. Noun

An apparatus for performing a special function; gearing; as, the feed gear of a lathe.

10. Noun

Engagement of parts with each other; as, in gear; out of gear.

11. Noun

See 1st Jeer (b).

12. Noun

Anything worthless; stuff; nonsense; rubbish.

13. Verb

To dress; to put gear on; to harness.

14. Verb

To provide with gearing.

15. Verb

To be in, or come into, gear.
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