gear – English noun declension

English noun forms of gear

Noun: gear
Singulargear
Pluralgears

Sample Sentences

  • Aray thy selfe in her most gorgeous geare [1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 26:]
  • Those Eastern winters, ⁠I can't endure 'em / So every year I pack my gear and come out here till Purim / Rosh Hashanah, I spend in Arizona [1990, “(I'm Spending) Hanukkah in Santa Monica”, in Tom Lehrer (music), The Remains of Tom Lehrer, performed by Tom Lehrer, published 2000:]
  • Homely gear and common ware. [1551, Thomas More, “(please specify the Internet Archive page)”, in Raphe Robynson [i.e., Ralph Robinson], transl., A Fruteful, and Pleasaunt Worke of the Best State of a Publyque Weale, and of the Newe Yle Called Utopia: […], London: […] [Steven Mierdman for] Abraham Vele, […], →OCLC:]
  • Near-synonyms: (wheel types) cog, cogwheel, gear wheel, gearwheel
  • gear-up landing
  • Get the gear down quick!
  • getting on gear
  • "Have you got any gear? Dominic, have you got any acid?" Emma kept running her hands nervously through her hair. "Not LSD, man; that last trip freaked me out." [2003, Marianne Hancock, Looking for Oliver, page 90:]
  • When he was digged up, which was in the presence of the Magistracy of the Town, his body was found entire, not at all putrid, no ill smell about him, saving the mustiness of the grave-Clothes, his joynts limber and flexible, as in those that are alive, his skin only flaccid, but a more fresh grown in the room of it, the wound of his throat gaping, but no gear nor corruption in it; there was also observed a Magical mark in the great toe of his right foot, viz. an Excrescency in the form of a Rose. [1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book III, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 113]
  • goe they both together to their geare. [1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 30:]
  • March 29, 1549, Hugh Latimer, the fourth sermon preached before King Edward
  • That servant of his that confessed and uttered this gear was an honest man.

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
3. Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
4. Proto-Germanic *ga-
5. Proto-Indo-European *h₂er-der.
6. Proto-Indo-European *h₃er-der.
7. Proto-Germanic *arwaz
8. Proto-Germanic *garwaz
9. Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
10. Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti
11. Proto-Germanic *-janą
12. Proto-Germanic *garwijanąder.
13. Old Norse gervibor.
14. Middle English gere
15. English gear
16. From Middle English gere, a borrowing from Old Norse gervi, from Proto-Germanic *garwijaną (“to prepare”). See also adjective yare, yar from the same root via Old English. See: Middle English Nouns 'gere', Old Norse Nouns 'gervi'.

Verbs referencing "gear"

English Nouns garb, Faroese Nouns gir, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns gir, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns gir, Swedish Nouns gissel.