'Gear cutter' definitions:
Definition of 'Gear cutter'
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]