Air shaft
() A passage, usually vertical, for admitting fresh air into a mine or a tunnel. |
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. |
Butt shaft
() An arrow without a barb, for shooting at butts |
Gear
(n.) Clothing |
Gear
(n.) Goods |
Gear
(n.) Whatever is prepared for use or wear |
Gear
(n.) The harness of horses or cattle |
Gear
(n.) Warlike accouterments. |
Gear
(n.) Manner |
Gear
(n.) Business matters |
Gear
(n.) A toothed wheel, or cogwheel |
Gear
(n.) An apparatus for performing a special function |
Gear
(n.) Engagement of parts with each other |
Gear
(n.) See 1st Jeer (b). |
Gear
(n.) Anything worthless |
Gear
(v. t.) To dress |
Gear
(v. t.) To provide with gearing. |
Gear
(v. i.) To be in, or come into, gear. |
Head gear
(n.) Alt. of Headgear |
Rock shaft
() 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 |
Shaft
(n.) The slender, smooth stem of an arrow |
Shaft
(n.) The long handle of a spear or similar weapon |
Shaft
(n.) That which resembles in some degree the stem or handle of an arrow or a spear |
Shaft
(n.) The trunk, stem, or stalk of a plant. |
Shaft
(n.) The stem or midrib of a feather. |
Shaft
(n.) The pole, or tongue, of a vehicle |
Shaft
(n.) The part of a candlestick which supports its branches. |
Shaft
(n.) The handle or helve of certain tools, instruments, etc., as a hammer, a whip, etc. |
Shaft
(n.) A pole, especially a Maypole. |
Shaft
(n.) The body of a column |
Shaft
(n.) A column, an obelisk, or other spire-shaped or columnar monument. |
Shaft
(n.) A rod at the end of a heddle. |
Shaft
(n.) A solid or hollow cylinder or bar, having one or more journals on which it rests and revolves, and intended to carry one or more wheels or other revolving parts and to transmit power or motion |
Shaft
(n.) A humming bird (Thaumastura cora) having two of the tail feathers next to the middle ones very long in the male |
Shaft
(n.) A well-like excavation in the earth, perpendicular or nearly so, made for reaching and raising ore, for raising water, etc. |
Shaft
(n.) A long passage for the admission or outlet of air |
Shaft
(n.) The chamber of a blast furnace. |
Way shaft
() A rock shaft. |
Way shaft
() An interior shaft, usually one connecting two levels. |
chicken louse
shaft louse
Menopon palladum
Menopon gallinae | a louse parasitic on poultry |
| quill calamus shaft | the hollow spine of a feather |
air shaft
air well | a shaft for ventilation |
bevel gear
pinion and crown wheel
pinion and ring gear | gears that mesh at an angle |
| butt shaft | a blunt arrow without a barb, an arrow used for target practice |
| chafing gear | covering (usually rope or canvas) of a line or spar to protect it from friction |
differential gear
differential | a bevel gear that permits rotation of two shafts at different speeds, used on the rear axle of automobiles to allow wheels to rotate at different speeds on curves |
| elevator shaft | a vertical shaft in a building to permit the passage of an elevator from floor to floor |
epicyclic train
epicyclic gear train | a system of epicyclic gears in which at least one wheel axis itself revolves about another fixed axis |
first gear
first
low gear
low | the lowest forward gear ratio in the gear box of a motor vehicle, used to start a car moving |
fishing gear
tackle fishing tackle
fishing rig
rig | gear used in fishing |
| foul-weather gear | protective garment that is intended to keep the wearer dry and warm in bad weather |
gear
gear wheel
geared wheel
cogwheel | a toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion |
gear paraphernalia
appurtenance | equipment consisting of miscellaneous articles needed for a particular operation or sport etc. |
| gear gear mechanism | a mechanism for transmitting motion for some specific purpose (as the steering gear of a vehicle) |
gearbox
gear box
gear case | the shell (metal casing) in which a train of gears is sealed |
gearing
gear geartrain
power train
train | wheelwork consisting of a connected set of rotating gears by which force is transmitted or motion or torque is changed, the fool got his tie caught in the geartrain |
gearshift
gearstick
shifter
gear lever | a mechanical device for engaging and disengaging gears, in Britain they call a gearshift a gear lever |
high gear
high | a forward gear with a gear ratio that gives the greatest vehicle velocity for a given engine speed |
| landing gear | an undercarriage that supports the weight of the plane when it is on the ground |
planetary gear
epicyclic gear
planet wheel
planet gear | an outer gear that revolves about a central sun gear of an epicyclic train |
| reduction gear | gearing that reduces an input speed to a slower output speed |
reverse
reverse gear | the gears by which the motion of a machine can be reversed |
rotating shaft
shaft | a revolving rod that transmits power or motion |
rotor head
rotor shaft | the axis around which the major rotor of a helicopter turns |
second gear
second | the gear that has the second lowest forward gear ratio in the gear box of a motor vehicle, he had to shift down into second to make the hill |
| shaft | a long rod or pole (especially the handle of an implement or the body of a weapon like a spear or arrow) |
| shaft | a long vertical passage sunk into the earth, as for a mine or tunnel |
| shaft scape | (architecture) upright consisting of the vertical part of a column |
| shaft | a vertical passageway through a building (as for an elevator) |
spear
lance
shaft | a long pointed rod used as a tool or weapon |
spur gear
spur wheel | gear wheels that mesh in the same plane |
stable gear
saddlery
tack | gear for a horse |
| steering gear | a gear that couples the steering wheel to the steering linkage of a motor vehicle |
| sun gear | the central gear in an epicyclic train |
third gear
third | the third from the lowest forward ratio gear in the gear box of a motor vehicle, you shouldn't try to start in third gear |
| transmission shaft | rotating shaft that transmits rotary motion from the engine to the differential |
| ventilation shaft | a shaft in a building, serves as an air passage for ventilation |
| worm gear | gear consisting of a shaft with screw thread (the worm) that meshes with a toothed wheel (the worm wheel), changes the direction of the axis of rotary motion |
cock
prick
dick
shaft pecker
peter
tool
putz | obscene terms for penis |
diaphysis
shaft | the main (mid) section of a long bone |
shot
shaft slam
dig
barb
jibe
gibe | an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect, his parting shot was `drop dead', she threw shafts of sarcasm, she takes a dig at me every chance she gets |
| shaft | a line that forms the length of an arrow pointer |
beam
beam of light
light beam
ray
ray of light
shaft
shaft of light
irradiation | a column of light (as from a beacon) |
gear
pitch | set the level or character of, She pitched her speech to the teenagers in the audience |
fix prepare
set up ready
gear up
set | make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc, Get the children ready for school!, prepare for war, I was fixing to leave town after I paid the hotel bill |
cheat
chouse
shaft
screw
chicane
jockey | defeat someone through trickery or deceit |
| shaft | equip with a shaft |
| in gear | having gears engaged, the car is in gear |
| out of gear(p) | not having gears engaged, threw the machine's pinion out of gear |