Associations to the word «gearboxes»

Wiktionary

GEARBOX, noun. That part of a car's transmission containing the train of gears, and to which the gear lever is connected.

Dictionary definition

GEARBOX, noun. The shell (metal casing) in which a train of gears is sealed.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope