A gear stick is the lever used to change gear. Move the gear stick.
It moves rods or cables down to the gearbox rather than shifting anything itself. A gear stick is disappearing, since most new cars have no gears to change.
1noungear stickThe lever used to change gear.
“The gear stick rattled at anything over sixty.”
gear stick is a lever.
gearstick comes from gear + stick.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
Practised in Vehicles & Machines