Definition of gear

• n. - Clothing; garments; ornaments.
• n. - Goods; property; household stuff.
• n. - Whatever is prepared for use or wear; manufactured stuff or material.
• n. - The harness of horses or cattle; trapping.
• n. - Warlike accouterments.
• n. - Manner; custom; behavior.
• n. - Business matters; affairs; concern.
• n. - A toothed wheel, or cogwheel; as, a spur gear, or a bevel gear; also, toothed wheels, collectively.
• n. - An apparatus for performing a special function; gearing; as, the feed gear of a lathe.
• n. - Engagement of parts with each other; as, in gear; out of gear.
• n. - See 1st Jeer (b).
• n. - Anything worthless; stuff; nonsense; rubbish.
• v. t. - To dress; to put gear on; to harness.
• v. t. - To provide with gearing.
• v. i. - To be in, or come into, gear.