gearstick

[ UK /ɡˈi‍əstɪk/ ]
NOUN
  1. a mechanical device for engaging and disengaging gears
    in Britain they call a gearshift a gear lever
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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.
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