gearing

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: gear=ing

CIDE DICTIONARY

gearing, n. 

•  Harness.  [1913 Webster]
•  The parts by which motion imparted to one portion of an engine or machine is transmitted to another, considered collectively; as, the valve gearing of a locomotive engine; belt gearing; esp., a train of wheels for transmitting and varying motion in machinery.  [1913 Webster]

Frictional gearing. See under Frictional. -- Gearing chain, an endless chain transmitting motion from one sprocket wheel to another. See Illust. of Chain wheel. -- Spur gearing, gearing in which the teeth or cogs are ranged round either the concave or the convex surface (properly the latter) of a cylindrical wheel; -- for transmitting motion between parallel shafts, etc.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

gearing, n.
1 a set or arrangement of gears in a machine.
2 Brit. Commerce a the allocation of part of a dividend to preferred recipients. b the amount of this part.