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ungeared

  • a word derived from gear.
    gear

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In the lamplight he saw a big car standing at the curb, shaking as its ungeared engine puffed and chugged.

From The Girl Aviators and the Phantom Airship by Burnham, Margaret

She re-entered the car, which shook from the running of the ungeared motor that Walter had started for her.

From The Motor Girls by Penrose, Margaret

As the milder ungeared his primitive machinery, he had thought of saving water in the flume-chamber.

From The Chase of Saint-Castin and Other Stories of the French in the New World by Catherwood, Mary Hartwell

The motor, ungeared, was coughing and gasping in a painful manner.

From The Girl Aviators and the Phantom Airship by Burnham, Margaret

We have disregarded the warnings of our ungeared, disordered machine, or else we have merely tinkered with it.

From Intestinal Ills Chronic Constipation, Indigestion, Autogenetic Poisons, Diarrhea, Piles, Etc. Also Auto-Infection, Auto-Intoxication, Anemia, Emaciation, Etc. Due to Proctitis and Colitis by Jamison, Alcinous B. (Alcinous Burton)