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A complete general encyclopedia of 1921 — the world as it was understood just after the Great War, from Aachen to Zwingli, across twelve volumes and six thousand pages.

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Gear

in machinery, the furniture, rigging, tackle (jeers), apparatus, and GEAR, in machinery, the furniture, sion gear, valve gear, pump gear, appurtenances of an implement: e. g., expansion expansion gear, valve gear, pump gear, plow gear; the working parts of a locomotive; the rigging of a spar or sail; the the fore gears, hind gears, referring to motive; the rigging of a spar or sail; the the fore axle and its wheels, the hind axle and its wheels. To the former is the latter the hind hounds. Each carries attached the tongue and fore hounds, to GEARING its bolster. The term is also applied to other mechanical devices by which motion is transmitted; as change gear, chain gear, back gear, overhead gear; or by which parts are operated, as hoisting gear.

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