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[syn: cog, sprocket]
VERB (2)
1. roll steel ingots;
2. join pieces of wood with cogs;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Cog \Cog\ (k[o^]g), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cogged (k[o^]gd); p.
pr. & vb. n. Cogging.] [Cf. W. coegio to make void, to
beceive, from coeg empty, vain, foolish. Cf. Coax, v. t.]
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1. To seduce, or draw away, by adulation, artifice, or
falsehood; to wheedle; to cozen; to cheat. [R.]
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I'll . . . cog their hearts from them. --Shak.
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2. To obtrude or thrust in, by falsehood or deception; as, to
cog in a word; to palm off. [R.]
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Fustian tragedies . . . have, by concerted
applauses, been cogged upon the town for
masterpieces. --J. Dennis
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To cog a die, to load so as to direct its fall; to
cheat in playing dice. --Swift.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Cog \Cog\, n. [OE. cogge; cf. D. kog, Icel. kuggr Cf. Cock a
boat.]
A small fishing boat. --Ham. Nav. Encyc.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Cog \Cog\, v. i.
To deceive; to cheat; to play false; to lie; to wheedle; to
cajole.
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For guineas in other men's breeches,
Your gamesters will palm and will cog. --Swift.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Cog \Cog\, n.
A trick or deception; a falsehood. --Wm. Watson.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Cog \Cog\, n. [Cf. Sw. kugge a cog, or W. cocos the cogs of a
wheel.]
1. (Mech.) 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.
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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.
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3. (Mining.) One of the rough pillars of stone or coal left
to support the roof of a mine.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Cog \Cog\, v. t.
To furnish with a cog or cogs.
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Cogged breath sound (Auscultation), a form of interrupted
respiration, in which the interruptions are very even,
three or four to each inspiration. --Quain.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
cog
n 1: a subordinate who performs an important but routine
function; "he was a small cog in a large machine"
2: tooth on the rim of gear wheel [syn: cog, sprocket]
v 1: roll steel ingots
2: join pieces of wood with cogs