steering gear

1. 1.

   a gear that couples the steering wheel to the steering linkage of a motor vehicle

   Broadergear

   Part ofsteering system

Questions about steering gear

What does steering gear mean?

steering gear means "a gear that couples the steering wheel to the steering linkage of a motor vehicle".

Is steering gear a common word?

steering 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.