cog, sprocket
(noun) tooth on the rim of gear wheel
cog
(noun) a subordinate who performs an important but routine function; “he was a small cog in a large machine”
cog
(verb) join pieces of wood with cogs
cog
(verb) roll steel ingots
Source: WordNet® 3.1
COG (plural COGs)
Initialism of center of gravity.
COG
Initialism of Church of God: numerous, mostly unrelated Christian denominations.
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cog (plural cogs)
A tooth on a gear.
A gear; a cogwheel.
An unimportant individual in a greater system.
(carpentry) A projection or tenon at the end of a beam designed to fit into a matching opening of another piece of wood to form a joint.
(mining) One of the rough pillars of stone or coal left to support the roof of a mine.
cog (third-person singular simple present cogs, present participle cogging, simple past and past participle cogged)
To furnish with a cog or cogs.
cog (plural cogs)
(historical) A ship of burden, or war with a round, bulky hull.
Uncertain origin. Both verb and noun appear first in 1532.
cog (plural cogs)
A trick or deception; a falsehood.
cog (third-person singular simple present cogs, present participle cogging, simple past and past participle cogged)
To load (a die) so that it can be used to cheat.
To cheat; to play or gamble fraudulently.
To seduce, or draw away, by adulation, artifice, or falsehood; to wheedle; to cozen; to cheat.
To obtrude or thrust in, by falsehood or deception; to palm off.
cog (plural cogs)
A small fishing boat.
Alternative form of cogue (“wooden vessel for milk”)
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Source: Wiktionary
Cog, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cogged; p. pr. & vb. n. Cogging.] Etym: [Cf. W. coegio to make void, to beceive, from coeg empty, vain, foolish. Cf. Coax, v. t.]
1. To seduce, or draw away, by adulation, artifice, or falsehood; to wheedle; to cozen; to cheat. [R.] I'll . . . cog their hearts from them. Shak.
2. To obtrude or thrust in, by falsehood or deception; as, to cog in a word; to palm off. [R.] Fustian tragedies . . . have, by concerted applauses, been cogged upon the town for masterpieces. J. Dennis To cog a die, to load so as to direct its fall; to cheat in playing dice. Swift.
Cog, v. i.
Definition: To deceive; to cheat; to play false; to lie; to wheedle; to cajole. For guineas in other men's breeches, Your gamesters will palm and will cog. Swift.
Cog, n.
Definition: A trick or deception; a falsehood. Wm. Watson.
Cog, n. Etym: [Cf. Sw. kugge a cog, or W. cocos the cogs of a wheel.]
1. (Mech.)
Definition: A tooth, cam, or catch for imparting or receiving motion, as on a gear wheel, or a lifter or wiper on a shaft; originally, a separate piece of wood set in a mortise in the face of a wheel.
2. (Carp.) (a) A kind of tenon on the end of a joist, received into a notch in a bearing timber, and resting flush with its upper surface. (b) A tenon in a scarf joint; a coak. Knight.
3. (Mining.)
Definition: One of the rough pillars of stone or coal left to support the roof of a mine.
Cog, v. t.
Definition: To furnish with a cog or cogs. Cogged breath sound (Auscultation), a form of interrupted respiration, in which the interruptions are very even, three or four to each inspiration. Quain.
Cog, n. Etym: [OE. cogge; cf. D. kog, Icel. kuggr Cf. Cock a boat.]
Definition: A small fishing boat. Ham. Nav. Encyc.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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