## Meanings
1. The equipment, clothing, or tools needed for a particular activity.
2. A toothed wheel that turns with others to control speed or power in a machine or vehicle.

## Examples
- Don't forget to pack your camping gear for the trip.
- He changed into a lower gear as the car climbed the hill.

## Derived Forms
- brakegear
- de-gear
- degear
- drawgear
- eyegear
- footgear
- foregear
- gear-wheel
- gearbox
- geardo
- gearhead
- gearjammer

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: gere
- Root: gervi
- Root: *garwijaną

## 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.

## AI Etymology
Gear comes 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. In current use, the main senses are “The equipment, clothing, or tools needed for a particular activity” and “A toothed wheel that turns with others to control speed or power in a machine or vehicle”.

## Topics
- Transportation
- Tools, Machines & Construction

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