landing gear

1. 1.

   an undercarriage that supports the weight of the plane when it is on the ground

   Broaderundercarriage

   Narrowerlanding skid

   Part ofairplane

   Partsnosewheel

Questions about landing gear

What does landing gear mean?

landing gear means "an undercarriage that supports the weight of the plane when it is on the ground".

Is landing gear a common word?

landing gear is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.