v. [UN-2 3, 4 b.]
1. trans. To unharness. Now dial.
c. 1611. Chapman, Iliad, XI. 536. And Nestor’s squire, Eurymedon, the horses did ungear.
[1775. Ash, Ungear,… to unharness, to deliver from the gears.]
1825. Brockett, N. C. Words, s.v., Ungear the yoke.
1828. Trial of W. Dyon & Son at York Assizes, 11. I was ungeering the horses.
1854. Miss Baker, Northampt. Gloss., Ungear, to unharness; restricted to husbandry horses.
2. To disconnect the gearing of.
1828. Craven Gloss., s.v., A mill is also said to be ungeared, when the water is turned off or the machinery displaced.
1852. Morfit, Tanning & Currying (1853), 118. The necessity of ungearing the pinion.
