71 adjectives to describe gear

If this arrangement be used in cases where the link is used as an expansion device, there will be, of course, some block slip while running in the intermediate gears.

" "The nuts firm, the brakes in order, the sprockets running true with the differential gear?"

If I had comprehended his meaning involuntarily I would have obeyed, but luckily my brain has a slow shifting language gear.

Now I have to go backwardthat's one good thing about this story, it has a reverse gear; you can go backward.

Funnels, bridge, and masts swung with a rhythmical motion; loose gear rattled, and every now and then a distant tinkle sounded faintly from the steward's pantry.

But when if, after all, this godly gear Is not so senseless as it would appear; Our mountebank has laid a deeper train, His cant, like Merry-Andrew's noble vein, Cat-calls the sects to draw them in again.

He threw the blanket and saddle on the little roan, cinched quickly but carefully the double gear, slipped the bit into the waiting mouth of the horse and without stopping to put on his chaps sprang on Captain Jack's back and whirled him in a dead run around the corner of the shed and down the lane toward the north.

One of a stump fence particularly delighted himthose stump fences made out of the roots of pine trees set side by side, which had been a feature of the country some miles back, and which make such a weird impression on the landscape, like rows of gigantic black antlers, or many-armed Hindoo idols, or a horde of Zulus in fantastic war-gear drawn up in battle-array, or the blackened stumps of giants' teethColin

A tighter fisted sinner did not exist in the county than this pious soul, who certainly not only wore, but wore out the "form of godliness," while he was devoted, heart and hand, to the daily increase of worldly gear.

When this was accomplished, Josh took a walk forward to the fo'cas'le; but found nothing beyond two seamen's chests; a sea-bag, and some odd gear.

Leaving a driver and all spare gear at the station, we thrashed our way along a road metalled with a soft, friable limestone which had been cut into by the iron-shod wheels of German lorries until the ruts were fully a foot deep, and the soft earth foundation was oozing through to the surface.

They left all their picturesque Arctic gear behind them except their moccasins, Swan being one of those trying people who don't care how they look, if only they "mush" along fast enough.

The forward torpedo gear consists of one torpedo gun, adapted for ejecting the Whitehead torpedo by means of gunpowder, now preferred on account of its simplicity.

Section 3: Helical and spiral gears.

It has not even a cheap shop for female gear.

You put on the robe which was to mark your manhood,on your person it became the flaunting gear of a harlot".

The world's a theatre: age after age, Souls masked and muffled in their fleshly gear Before the supreme audience appear, As Nature, God's own Art, appoints the stage.

"I'm glad you are better," said Mary, reverently receiving the funereal head-gear.

The forms of the Skimmer and his assistants were visible, in the midst of the gallant gear, perched on the giddy yards.

And when, all bedraggled and pale, Poor Vivy approached her own door, She went, swift and straight As a dart, through the gate, Abhorring the gay gear she wore.

Two round holes cut in this ghostly head-gear revealed simply two black glittering eyes, which shone with that singular elfish effect which belongs to the human eye when removed from its appropriate and natural accessories.

But the rest of her noble golden gear, the belt and the clasps, were upon the maid when the headsman of Thorn delivered her to one that stood near by.

But this I do know, Plassenburg was taken with much slaughter and grievous loss of goodly gear.

What if my lady should appear In a mechanic's grimy gear?

One of them wore a high helmet of puma-skin, with the tail hanging down his back handsome head-gear, which he gladly bartered for several strings of bright coral-red beads.

71 adjectives to describe  gear