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Surname or Lastname
English
English : patronymic from a Germanic personal name beginning with the element gÄ“r, gÄr ‘spear’ (see Geary 2).Probably an Americanized spelling of German Gehring.
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n.
A wheel with cogs or teeth; a gear wheel. See Illust. of Gearing.
v. t.
To provide with gearing.
n.
The parts by which motion imparted to one portion of an engine or machine is transmitted to another, considered collectively; as, the valve gearing of locomotive engine; belt gearing; esp., a train of wheels for transmitting and varying motion in machinery.
n.
A system of gearing driven by a horse power, for multiplying speed.
n.
An apparatus for performing a special function; gearing; as, the feed gear of a lathe.
n.
The shafting, gearing, and other driving machinery of mills.
n.
Harness.
a.
A movable winch or windlass with powerful gearing, used with derricks, etc.
n.
The distance from center to center of any two adjacent teeth of gearing, measured on the pitch line; -- called also circular pitch.
n.
The valve gearing or mechanism by which steam is cut off from entering the cylinder of a steam engine after a definite point in a stroke, so as to allow the remainder of the stroke to be made by the expansive force of the steam already let in. See Expansion gear, under Expansion.
n.
A short revolving screw, the threads of which drive, or are driven by, a worm wheel by gearing into its teeth or cogs. See Illust. of Worm gearing, below.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Gear