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UK
/ɡˈiəstɪk/
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NOUN
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a mechanical device for engaging and disengaging gears
in Britain they call a gearshift a gear lever
How To Use gearstick In A Sentence
- It had a peculiar gearstick, and the driver could find reverse only after various undignified contortions.
- He-it's usually a he-gets the same satisfaction from rapidly double declutching through the gearbox of a 1953 Jaguar C-type and flicking around the gearstick on a nippy little 2009 Hyundai i10. Die besten Nachrichten von heute
- Security devices are great deterrents, steering wheel and gearstick locks and locking wheelnuts are inexpensive and easy to fit.
- It was not very comfortable, either - the way it makes you sit bolt upright feels very German and I thought the gearstick felt cheap and plasticky.
- ‘The Ford cost a mint, but even the pedals, the gearstick and the handbrake work,’ Raymonde said.
- The gearstick motions are short and quiet and the car handles with a surprisingly taut sporty slickness, putting one over on its more timid rivals, such as the Ford Fiesta and the Vauxhall Corsa.
- With first gear engaged, and the second gearstick that controls the transfer box set to Low, the car noses down the sheer slope with amazing assurance.
- This is enlivened by Mondial blue flourishes on the dash, sports steering wheel and gearstick, and the same drilled aluminium pedals as the 172.
- It doesn't have a gearstick, but on the road can be controlled with brake and accelerator pedals and a steering wheel like an ordinary car.