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speed gear
noun
- an adjustable gear for driving a machine at various speeds.
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Fig.8 shows another European design, in which a variable-speed gear is used.
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The auto slowed down, as the low-speed gear came into play, and bowled along under a stretch of shady trees.
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He threw in the second speed gear and in a little while had lessened the distance between the auto and the motor-cycle.
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The next instant the auto fairly sprang forward, as Jerry threw on the high-speed gear and opened wide the flow of gasolene.
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With its four-change speed-gear a motor cycle seems better adapted for easy and economical travelling than the human machine.
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