GEAR (connected with " garb," properly elegance, fashion, especially of dress, and with " gar," to cause to do, only found in Scottish and northern dialects; the root of the word is seen in the Old Tent. garwjan, to make ready)

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GEAR (connected with " garb," properly elegance, fashion, especially of dress, and with " gar," to cause to do, only found in Scottish and northern dialects; the root of the word is seen in the Old Tent. garwjan, to make ready) , an outfit, applied to the wearing apparel of a person, or to the

harness

HARNESS (from O. Fr. harneis or harnois; the ultimate origin is obscure; the Celtic origin which connects it with the Welsh haiarn, iron, has phonetic and other difficulties; the French is the origin of the Span. arnes, and Ger. Harnisch)

and trappings of a horse or any draft animal, as riding-gear,

hunting

HUNTING (the verbal substantive from " hunt "; O. Eng. huntian, hunta; apparently connected with O. Eng. hentan, Gothic hinpan, to capture, O.H.G. hunda,booty)

-gear, &c.; also to

household

HOUSEHOLD, ROYAL

goods or stuff. The phrase " out of gear," though now connected with the mechanical application of the word, was originally used to signify " out of

harness

HARNESS (from O. Fr. harneis or harnois; the ultimate origin is obscure; the Celtic origin which connects it with the Welsh haiarn, iron, has phonetic and other difficulties; the French is the origin of the Span. arnes, and Ger. Harnisch)

" or

condition

CONDITION (Lat. condicio, from condicere, to agree upon, arrange; not connected with conditio, from condere, conditum, to put together)

, not ready to

work

WORK

, not fit. The word is also used of apparasus generally, and especially of the parts collectively in a

machine

by which motion is transmitted from one

part

PART

to another by a

series

SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

of cog-wheels, continuous bands, &c. It is used in a

special

SPECIAL

sense in reference to a bicycle, meaning the

diameter

DIAMETER (from the Cr. &a, through, µErpov, measure)

of an imaginary wheel, the circumference of which is equal to the distance accomplished by one revolution of the pedals (see BICYCLE).

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