資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
{Running bowsprit} (Naut.) Same as {Reefing bowsprit}.
{Running days} (Com.), the consecutive days occupied on a
voyage under a charter party, including Sundays and not
limited to the working days. --Simmonds.
{Running fire}, a constant fire of musketry or cannon.
{Running gear}, the wheels and axles of a vehicle, and their
attachments, in distinction from the body; all the working
parts of a locomotive or other machine, in distinction
from the framework.
{Running hand}, a style of rapid writing in which the letters
are usually slanted and the words formed without lifting
the pen; -- distinguished from {round hand}.
{Running part} (Naut.), that part of a rope that is hauled
upon, -- in distinction from the {standing part}.
{Running rigging} (Naut.), that part of a ship's rigging or
ropes which passes through blocks, etc.; -- in distinction
from {standing rigging}.
{Running title} (Print.), the title of a book or chapter
continued from page to page on the upper margin.
Gear \Gear\, n. [OE. gere, ger, AS. gearwe clothing, adornment,
armor, fr. gearo, gearu, ready, yare; akin to OHG. garaw[=i],
garw[=i] ornament, dress. See {Yare}, and cf. {Garb} dress.]
1. Clothing; garments; ornaments.
Array thyself in thy most gorgeous gear. --Spenser.
2. Goods; property; household stuff. --Chaucer.
Homely gear and common ware. --Robynson
(More's
Utopia).
3. Whatever is prepared for use or wear; manufactured stuff
or material.
Clad in a vesture of unknown gear. --Spenser.
4. The harness of horses or cattle; trapping.
5. Warlike accouterments. [Scot.] --Jamieson.
6. Manner; custom; behavior. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
7. Business matters; affairs; concern. [Obs.]
Thus go they both together to their gear. --Spenser.
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.
9. pl. (Naut.) See 1st {Jeer}
(b) .
10. Anything worthless; stuff; nonsense; rubbish. [Obs. or
Prov. Eng.] --Wright.
That servant of his that confessed and uttered this
gear was an honest man. --Latimer.
{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, or out of}, {gear} (Mach.), to connect or
disconnect (wheelwork or couplings, etc.); to put in, or
out of, working relation.