creeper gear

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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. uncountable
    — Near-synonym: low gear

词源

So 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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