Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) Clothing; garments; ornaments. 2. (n.) Goods; property; household stuff. 3. (n.) Whatever is prepared for use or wear; manufactured stuff or material. 4. (n.) The harness of horses or cattle; trapping. 5. (n.) Warlike accouterments. 6. (n.) Manner; custom; behavior. 7. (n.) Business matters; affairs; concern. 8. (n.) A toothed wheel, or cogwheel; as, a spur gear, or a bevel gear; also, toothed wheels, collectively. 9. (n.) An apparatus for performing a special function; gearing; as, the feed gear of a lathe. 10. (n.) Engagement of parts with each other; as, in gear; out of gear. 11. (n.) See 1st Jeer (b). 12. (n.) Anything worthless; stuff; nonsense; rubbish. 13. (v. t.) To dress; to put gear on; to harness. 14. (v. t.) To provide with gearing. 15. (v. i.) To be in, or come into, gear.

Multi-Version Concordance Gear (3 Occurrences) Acts 27:17 and, after hoisting it on board, they used frapping-cables to undergird the ship, and, as they were afraid of being driven on the Syrtis quicksands, they lowered the gear and lay to. (WEY ASV DBY RSV) Acts 27:19 and, on the third day, with their own hands they threw the ship's spare gear overboard. (WEY) Genesis 27:3 Now therefore, please take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field, and take me venison. (See NAS)