gear

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   wheelwork consisting of a connected set of rotating gears by which force is transmitted or motion or torque is changed

   The fool got their tie caught in the geartrain.

2. 2
   noun

   Clothing; garments.

   Aray thy selfe in her most gorgeous geare

3. 3
   noun

   Goods; property; household items.

   Homely gear and common ware.

4. 4
   noun

   A wheel, wheel segment, or bar with grooves (teeth) engraved on the outer circumference, such that two such devices can interlock and convey motion from one to the other.

   Near-synonyms: (wheel types) cog, cogwheel, gear wheel, gearwheel

5. 5
   noun

   Ellipsis of landing gear.

   gear-up landing

6. 6
   noun

   Recreational drugs, including steroids.

   getting on gear

7. 7
   noun

   Stuff.

   When he was digged up, which was in the presence of the Magistracy of the Town, his body was found entire, not at all putrid, no ill smell about him, saving the mustiness of the grave-Clothes, his joynts limber and flexible, as in those that are alive, his skin only flaccid, but a more fresh grown in the room of it, the wound of his throat gaping, but no gear nor corruption in it; there was also observed a Magical mark in the great toe of his right foot, viz. an Excrescency in the form of a Rose.

8. 8
   noun

   Business matters; affairs; concern.

   goe they both together to their geare.

Etymology

From Middle English gere, a borrowing from Old Norse gervi, from Proto-Germanic *garwijaną (“to prepare”). See also adjective yare, yar from the same root via Old English.