creeper gear
The lowest gear on a vehicle: especially, a dedicated super-low gear, available in…The lowest gear on a vehicle: especially, a dedicated super-low gear, available in some trucks and tractors, that is even lower than the usual low gear, which is labeled as first gear.
Meaning
1 senses(uncountable)The lowest gear on a vehicle: especially, a dedicated super-low gear, available in some trucks and tractors, that is even lower than the usual low gear, which is labeled as first gear.
Near-synonym: low gear
Origin
So called because the vehicle creeps in the mechanical sense of that word: it moves very sSo called because the vehicle creeps in the mechanical sense of that word: it moves very slowly, such that a person on foot can outwalk it, for example.
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Synonyms
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1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable