creeper gear

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释义与例句

n.
  1. 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.

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    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.

来源：wiktionary