'Feed gear' definitions:

Definition of 'Feed gear'

From: GCIDE
  • Feed \Feed\, n.
  • 1. That which is eaten; esp., food for beasts; fodder; pasture; hay; grain, ground or whole; as, the best feed for sheep. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. A grazing or pasture ground. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. An allowance of provender given to a horse, cow, etc.; a meal; as, a feed of corn or oats. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. A meal, or the act of eating. [R.] [1913 Webster]
  • For such pleasure till that hour At feed or fountain never had I found. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. The water supplied to steam boilers. [1913 Webster]
  • 6. (Mach.) (a) The motion, or act, of carrying forward the stuff to be operated upon, as cloth to the needle in a sewing machine; or of producing progressive operation upon any material or object in a machine, as, in a turning lathe, by moving the cutting tool along or in the work. (b) The supply of material to a machine, as water to a steam boiler, coal to a furnace, or grain to a run of stones. (c) The mechanism by which the action of feeding is produced; a feed motion. [1913 Webster]
  • Feed bag, a nose bag containing feed for a horse or mule.
  • Feed cloth, an apron for leading cotton, wool, or other fiber, into a machine, as for carding, etc.
  • Feed door, a door to a furnace, by which to supply coal.
  • Feed head. (a) A cistern for feeding water by gravity to a steam boiler. (b) (Founding) An excess of metal above a mold, which serves to render the casting more compact by its pressure; -- also called a riser, deadhead, or simply feed or head --Knight.
  • Feed heater. (a) (Steam Engine) A vessel in which the feed water for the boiler is heated, usually by exhaust steam. (b) A boiler or kettle in which is heated food for stock.
  • Feed motion, or Feed gear (Mach.), the train of mechanism that gives motion to the part that directly produces the feed in a machine.
  • Feed pipe, a pipe for supplying the boiler of a steam engine, etc., with water.
  • Feed pump, a force pump for supplying water to a steam boiler, etc.
  • Feed regulator, a device for graduating the operation of a feeder. --Knight.
  • Feed screw, in lathes, a long screw employed to impart a regular motion to a tool rest or tool, or to the work.
  • Feed water, water supplied to a steam boiler, etc.
  • Feed wheel (Mach.), a kind of feeder. See Feeder, n., 8. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Feed gear'

From: GCIDE
  • Gear \Gear\ (g[=e]r), n. [OE. gere, ger, AS. gearwe clothing, adornment, armor, fr. gearo, gearu, ready, yare; akin to OHG. garaw[imac], garw[imac] ornament, dress. See Yare, and cf. Garb dress.]
  • 1. Clothing; garments; ornaments. [1913 Webster]
  • Array thyself in thy most gorgeous gear. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Goods; property; household stuff. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
  • Homely gear and common ware. --Robynson (More's Utopia). [1913 Webster]
  • 3. Whatever is prepared for use or wear; manufactured stuff or material. [1913 Webster]
  • Clad in a vesture of unknown gear. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. The harness of horses or cattle; trapping. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. Warlike accouterments. [Scot.] --Jamieson. [1913 Webster]
  • 6. Manner; custom; behavior. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
  • 7. Business matters; affairs; concern. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
  • Thus go they both together to their gear. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
  • 8. (Mech.) (a) A toothed wheel, or cogwheel; as, a spur gear, or a bevel gear; also, toothed wheels, collectively. (b) An apparatus for performing a special function; gearing; as, the feed gear of a lathe. (c) Engagement of parts with each other; as, in gear; out of gear. [1913 Webster]
  • 9. pl. (Naut.) See 1st Jeer (b) . [1913 Webster]
  • 10. Anything worthless; stuff; nonsense; rubbish. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] --Wright. [1913 Webster]
  • That servant of his that confessed and uttered this gear was an honest man. --Latimer. [1913 Webster]
  • Bever gear. See Bevel gear.
  • Core gear, a mortise gear, or its skeleton. See {Mortise wheel}, under Mortise.
  • Expansion gear (Steam Engine), the arrangement of parts for cutting off steam at a certain part of the stroke, so as to leave it to act upon the piston expansively; the cut-off. See under Expansion.
  • Feed gear. See Feed motion, under Feed, n.
  • Gear cutter, a machine or tool for forming the teeth of gear wheels by cutting.
  • Gear wheel, any cogwheel.
  • Running gear. See under Running.
  • To throw in gear or To throw out of gear (Mach.), to connect or disconnect (wheelwork or couplings, etc.); to put in, or out of, working relation. [1913 Webster]