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. |
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. |
Gold-hammer (n.) The yellow-hammer. |
Hammer (n.) An instrument for driving nails, beating metals, and the like, consisting of a head, usually of steel or iron, fixed crosswise to a handle. |
Hammer (n.) Something which in firm or action resembles the common hammer |
Hammer (n.) That part of a clock which strikes upon the bell to indicate the hour. |
Hammer (n.) The padded mallet of a piano, which strikes the wires, to produce the tones. |
Hammer (n.) The malleus. |
Hammer (n.) That part of a gunlock which strikes the percussion cap, or firing pin |
Hammer (n.) Also, a person of thing that smites or shatters |
Hammer (v. t.) To beat with a hammer |
Hammer (v. t.) To form or forge with a hammer |
Hammer (v. t.) To form in the mind |
Hammer (v. i.) To be busy forming anything |
Hammer (v. i.) To strike repeated blows, literally or figuratively. |
Hammer-beam (n.) A member of one description of roof truss, called hammer-beam truss, which is so framed as not to have a tiebeam at the top of the wall. Each principal has two hammer-beams, which occupy the situation, and to some extent serve the purpose, of a tiebeam. |
Hammer-dressed (a.) Having the surface roughly shaped or faced with the stonecutter's hammer |
Hammer-harden (v. t.) To harden, as a metal, by hammering it in the cold state. |
Hammer-less (a.) Without a visible hammer |
Head gear (n.) Alt. of Headgear |
Tilt hammer () A tilted hammer |
Trip hammer () A tilt hammer. |
Water hammer () A vessel partly filled with water, exhausted of air, and hermetically sealed. When reversed or shaken, the water being unimpeded by air, strikes the sides in solid mass with a sound like that of a hammer. |
Water hammer () A concussion, or blow, made by water in striking, as against the sides of a pipe or vessel containing it. |
hammer pound hammering pounding | the act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows), the sudden hammer of fists caught him off guard, the pounding of feet on the hallway |
air hammer jackhammer pneumatic hammer | a hammer driven by compressed air |
ball-peen hammer | a hammer with one round and one flat end, used in working metal |
bevel gear pinion and crown wheel pinion and ring gear | gears that mesh at an angle |
bricklayer's hammer | a hammer used in laying bricks |
carpenter's hammer claw hammer clawhammer | a hammer with a cleft at one end for pulling nails |
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 |
drop forge drop hammer drop press | device for making large forgings |
electric hammer | a hammer driven by electric motor |
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 |
hammer | a hand tool with a heavy rigid head and a handle, used to deliver an impulsive force by striking |
hammer power hammer | a power tool for drilling rocks |
hammer | a striker that is covered in felt and that causes the piano strings to vibrate |
hammer cock | the part of a gunlock that strikes the percussion cap when the trigger is pulled |
hammer | a heavy metal sphere attached to a flexible wire, used in the hammer throw |
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 |
mallet hammer | a light drumstick with a rounded head that is used to strike such percussion instruments as chimes, kettledrums, marimbas, glockenspiels, etc. |
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 |
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 |
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 |
tack hammer | a light hammer that is used to drive tacks |
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 |
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 |
malleus hammer | the ossicle attached to the eardrum |
hammer and sickle | the emblem on the flag of the Soviet Union |
water hammer | the banging sound of steam in pipes |
hammer throw | an athletic competition in which a heavy metal ball that is attached to a flexible wire is hurled as far as possible |
rhinophyma hypertrophic rosacea toper's nose brandy nose rum nose rum-blossom potato nose hammer nose copper nose | enlargement of the nose with dilation of follicles and redness and prominent vascularity of the skin, often associated with excessive consumption of alcohol |
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 |
hammer in drill in ram down beat in | teach by drills and repetition |
thrash out hammer out | discuss vehemently in order to reach a solution or an agreement, The leaders of the various Middle Eastern countries are trying to hammer out a peace agreement |
hammer | beat with or as if with a hammer, hammer the metal flat |
forge hammer | create by hammering, hammer the silver into a bowl, forge a pair of tongues |