out of gear

noun

1. 1. Obsolete the clothing and equipment of a soldier, knight, etc.
   2. clothing; apparel
2. movable property; esp., apparatus or equipment for some particular task, as a workman's tools, the rigging of a ship, a harness, etc.
3. 1. a toothed wheel, disk, etc. designed to mesh with another or with the thread of a worm
   2. a system of two or more gears meshed together so that the motion of one controls the speed and torque of another
   3. a specific adjustment of such a system
   4. any part of a mechanism performing a specific function: the steering gear

adjective

transitive verb

1. to furnish with gear; harness
2. to adapt (one thing) so as to conform with another: to gear production to demand
3. Mech.
   1. to connect by gears
   2. to furnish with gears
   3. to put into gear

intransitive verb