steering gear

the apparatus or mechanism for steering a ship, automobile, bicycle, airplane, etc.

Origin of steering gear

First recorded in 1865–70

Could he reverse the steering-gear in all that flame and smoke?

Egholm and his God |Johannes Buchholtz
Besides the loss of the smoke-stack and steering-gear, the injuries to the casemate of the ram were very severe.

The Gulf and Inland Waters |A. T. Mahan
On the burning Vermont the steering-gear seemed to be out of order.

Banzai! |Ferdinand Heinrich Grautoff
We've been a lot together this spring, Lestrange; I don't like this business about the steering-gear.

The Flying Mercury |Eleanor M. Ingram

Its steering-gear was pretty dicky, and the bad surface and continual hairpin bends of the road didn't improve it.

Greenmantle |John Buchan

steering gear

any mechanism used for steering a vehicle, ship, aircraft, etc