Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A gear-train; a set of gears for transmitting power.

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Examples

  • "Nonsense," Volrath responded, kicking the loose gear-work aside.

    Mercadian Masques Lebaron, Francis 1999

  • He's got clockwork creatures and actual warriors roaming the walls around the academy at all hours, and clay men tramping through the woods by the sea, and gear-work birds that spy on the island.

    Time Streams King, J. Robert 1999

  • It withdrew its gear-work wings and shredders, folded them against its sides, and turned its head quizzically.

    Time Streams King, J. Robert 1999

  • He had seen much of the ancient facility on his way in-the coke chambers and blast furnaces, the mold rooms and rollers, the ancient gear-work and chain drives.

    Time Streams King, J. Robert 1999

  • Karn told himself he should be getting used to the vertiginous moment when the gear-work of the universe ground to a halt and then began slowly to turn backward.

    Time Streams King, J. Robert 1999

  • One of these days we will write him a letter that will really express our heart, filled with all the grindings and gear-work of our mind, rich in affection and fallacy.

    Mince Pie Christopher Morley 1923

  • Instead we found this place with a wild variety of - well, attractive - attractions: a nationwide system of excellent bike trails; old underground mills full of wooden gear-work; a cliff-walk, where you hang on ropes and creep along above a hundred foot drop; two separate luge ( "la ligne fée") and toboggan runs; a strange entertainment where they take your bike up to the top of a mountain and then let you ride down real fast (1000 foot descent in 4 minutes); and the farm we stayed at had not only animals and so on but a zip line, a trampoline and wine with the (relatively) inexpensive swiss-french farm dinner.

    Archive 2008-07-01 Heather McDougal 2008

  • Instead we found this place with a wild variety of - well, attractive - attractions: a nationwide system of excellent bike trails; old underground mills full of wooden gear-work; a cliff-walk, where you hang on ropes and creep along above a hundred foot drop; two separate luge ( "la ligne fée") and toboggan runs; a strange entertainment where they take your bike up to the top of a mountain and then let you ride down real fast (1000 foot descent in 4 minutes); and the farm we stayed at had not only animals and so on but a zip line, a trampoline and wine with the (relatively) inexpensive swiss-french farm dinner.

    The Rise and Fall of the Green Fairy Heather McDougal 2008

  • And here's your head, "she said as she pointed to each matrix of gray lines and gear-work.

    Time Streams King, J. Robert 1999

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