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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Mor·tise n.  A cavity cut into a piece of timber, or other material, to receive something (as the end of another piece) made to fit it, and called a tenon.
 Mortise and tenon Carp., made with a mortise and tenon; joined or united by means of a mortise and tenon; -- used adjectively.
 Mortise joint, a joint made by a mortise and tenon.
 Mortise lock. See under Lock.
 Mortise wheel, a cast-iron wheel, with wooden clogs inserted in mortises on its face or edge; -- also called mortise gear, and core gear.

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Gear n.
 1. Clothing; garments; ornaments.
    Array thyself in thy most gorgeous gear.   --Spenser.
 2. Goods; property; household stuff.
    Homely gear and common ware.   --Robynson (More's Utopia).
 3. Whatever is prepared for use or wear; manufactured stuff or material.
    Clad in a vesture of unknown gear.   --Spenser.
 4. The harness of horses or cattle; trapping.
 5. Warlike accouterments. [Scot.]
 6. Manner; custom; behavior. [Obs.]
 7. Business matters; affairs; concern. [Obs.]
    Thus go they both together to their gear.   --Spenser.
 8. Mech. (a) A toothed wheel, or cogwheel; as, a spur gear, or a bevel gear; also, toothed wheels, collectively. (b) An apparatus for performing a special function; gearing; as, the feed gear of a lathe. (c) Engagement of parts with each other; as, in gear; out of gear.
 9. pl. Naut. See 1st Jeer (b).
 10. Anything worthless; stuff; nonsense; rubbish. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
    That servant of his that confessed and uttered this gear was an honest man.   --Latimer.
 Bever gear. See Bevel gear.
 Core gear, a mortise gear, or its skeleton. See Mortise wheel, under Mortise.
 Expansion gear Steam Engine, the arrangement of parts for cutting off steam at a certain part of the stroke, so as to leave it to act upon the piston expansively; the cut-off. See under Expansion.
 Feed gear. See Feed motion, under Feed, n.
 Gear cutter, a machine or tool for forming the teeth of gear wheels by cutting.
 Gear wheel, any cogwheel.
 Running gear. See under Running.
 To throw in gear or To throw out of gear Mach., to connect or disconnect (wheelwork or couplings, etc.); to put in, or out of, working relation.