Cog
[kɒg] or [kɑɡ]
Definition
(noun.) tooth on the rim of gear wheel.
(noun.) a subordinate who performs an important but routine function; 'he was a small cog in a large machine'.
(verb.) join pieces of wood with cogs.
(verb.) roll steel ingots.
Typist: Merritt--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To seduce, or draw away, by adulation, artifice, or falsehood; to wheedle; to cozen; to cheat.
(v. t.) To obtrude or thrust in, by falsehood or deception; as, to cog in a word; to palm off.
(v. i.) To deceive; to cheat; to play false; to lie; to wheedle; to cajole.
(n.) A trick or deception; a falsehood.
(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.
(n.) A tenon in a scarf joint; a coak.
(n.) One of the rough pillars of stone or coal left to support the roof of a mine.
(v. t.) To furnish with a cog or cogs.
(n.) A small fishing boat.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Coax, wheedle.[2]. Furnish with cogs.
v. n. Deceive, CHEAT.
n. [1]. Trick, deceit, fraud, cheat.[2]. Tooth (of a wheel).
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Definition
n. a catch or tooth on a wheel.—v.t. to fix teeth in the rim of a wheel: to stop a wheel by putting a block before it:—pr.p. cog′ging; pa.p. cogged.—n. Cog′-wheel a toothed wheel whose teeth fit into and move another.
n. formerly a large ship of burden or for war: a small boat: a cock-boat.
v.t. to cheat or deceive: to wheedle: to cog dice is to manipulate them so that they may fall in a given way.—n. the act of cheating: deception.—p.adj. Cog′ging cheating.
Typist: Martha
Examples
- How in the world had they got from cog-wheels to Chevy Chace? Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- It had cog wheels engaging teeth on the side of the rail. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- I was just a screw or a cog in the great machine I called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was of no use anywhere else. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- They run on cog rail along the lock walls. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Incline from locks of different levels up and down which the towing motors run on cog rails. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- In this the pistons consisted of two cog wheels, their leaves intermeshing, and rotated in an elliptical shaped chamber. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The cylinders of those engines were vertical, and each of the four wheels acted propulsively on the rails by means of an endless chain running along cog-wheels fixed on the axles. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- The whole department works like one vast machine, and each man is a very definite and necessary cog in the whole scheme of procedure. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- In that diagram, also, there is shown a cog-wheel, _h_, fixed on to the axis, and a small outer case, in which that wheel rotates. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- The important parts of the machinery were huddled together, and caused friction, and the cog-wheels soon became badly worn. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The quadrant, B, has cogs cut, between which Z slides and stops the motion of A, which is moved, as before, by clockwork. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- The cogs began slowly to rise. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
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