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Cog
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- 1 Initialism of Church of God: numerous, mostly unrelated Christian denominations. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
- 1 A tooth on a gear.
- 2 A partially clinker-built, flat-bottomed, square-rigged mediaeval ship of burden or war, with a round, bulky hull and a single mast, typically 15 to 25 meters in length, in use from ca. 1150 to 1500. historical
"The name of the ship was Dawn Treader. She was only a little bit of a thing compared with one of our ships, or even with the cogs, dromonds, carracks and galleons which Narnia had owned when Lucy and Edmund had reigned there under Peter as the High King, for nearly all navigation had died out in the reigns of Caspian's ancestors."
- 3 A trick or deception; a falsehood.
"False suggestions, shamelesse cogs, and impious forgeries."
- 4 Alternative form of cogue (“wooden vessel for milk”). alt-of, alternative
- 5 Initialism of center of gravity. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
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- 6 tooth on the rim of gear wheel wordnet
- 7 A gear; especially, a cogwheel.
"She said: " We're not wasting time. While the cogs of Parliament continue to whir, we will continue to work on the rolling stock and infrastructure strategy, the national transport integrated strategy, and our accessibility roadmap."
- 8 The hypothetical precursor ship type of the above said to be in use during the early Middle Ages, variously alleged to be Frisian or Scandinavian. historical
- 9 Abbreviation of course over ground. abbreviation, alt-of
- 10 a subordinate who performs an important but routine function wordnet
- 11 An unimportant individual in a greater system.
"just a cog in the machine"
- 12 A small fishing boat. broadly
- 13 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.
- 14 One of the rough pillars of stone or coal left to support the roof of a mine.
- 1 To furnish with a cog or cogs.
- 2 To load (a die) so that it can be used to cheat.
- 3 join pieces of wood with cogs wordnet
- 4 Of an electric motor or generator, to snap preferentially to certain positions when not energized. intransitive
- 5 To cheat; to play or gamble fraudulently.
"1726, Jonathan Swift (debated), Molly Mog For guineas in other men's breeches, / Your gamesters will palm and will cog."
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- 6 roll steel ingots wordnet
- 7 To seduce, or draw away, by adulation, artifice, or falsehood; to wheedle; to cozen; to cheat.
"I'll mountebank their loves, Cog their hearts from them."
- 8 To plagiarize.
"[…] his themes and exercises were in constant demand for what we called cogging and American students rather grandly called plagiarization. Shakespeare and Eliot plagiarized; we grimly cogged in the early morning-oh, […]"
- 9 To obtrude or thrust in, by falsehood or deception; to palm off.
"to cog in a word"
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English cogge, from Old Norse *kogge, *koggr (see Old Swedish kogge, kogger), from Proto-Germanic *kuggō (“cog, swelling”), from Proto-Indo-European *gugā (“hump, ball”), from *gēw- (“to bend, arch”). Compare Lithuanian gugà (“pommel, hump, hill”). Cognates includes: Swedish kugg, kugge (“cog tooth”), Norwegian kugg (“cog”). The meaning of “cog” in carpentry derives from association with a tooth on a cogwheel. Compare Old Swedish koggavidher (“cog wood”), “wood reserved for a millwheel”. See also dialectal English cag (“stump”), keg; Old Norse kaggi (“keg”) + -gi (diminutive suffix), from the Germanic base *kagô (“bush, branch, stalk, stump”); also found in Bavarian Kag (“the stalk or stem of a cabbage”); dialectal Swedish kage (“treestump; piece of wood; post”), kagg or kagge (“scythe handle”); Norwegian Nynorsk kage or kagge (“low lying bush, small tree”), dialectal kagg (“scythe handle”); Old English ċeacga (“broom, furze, gorse”), whence English chag (“branch”), also Old English cyċġel, English cudgel (“knotty club”). The ultimate origin could be related to English cog (“cargo boat”) (Dutch kogge), probably named for its “round swollen” appearance.
Inherited from Middle English cogge, from Old Norse *kogge, *koggr (see Old Swedish kogge, kogger), from Proto-Germanic *kuggō (“cog, swelling”), from Proto-Indo-European *gugā (“hump, ball”), from *gēw- (“to bend, arch”). Compare Lithuanian gugà (“pommel, hump, hill”). Cognates includes: Swedish kugg, kugge (“cog tooth”), Norwegian kugg (“cog”). The meaning of “cog” in carpentry derives from association with a tooth on a cogwheel. Compare Old Swedish koggavidher (“cog wood”), “wood reserved for a millwheel”. See also dialectal English cag (“stump”), keg; Old Norse kaggi (“keg”) + -gi (diminutive suffix), from the Germanic base *kagô (“bush, branch, stalk, stump”); also found in Bavarian Kag (“the stalk or stem of a cabbage”); dialectal Swedish kage (“treestump; piece of wood; post”), kagg or kagge (“scythe handle”); Norwegian Nynorsk kage or kagge (“low lying bush, small tree”), dialectal kagg (“scythe handle”); Old English ċeacga (“broom, furze, gorse”), whence English chag (“branch”), also Old English cyċġel, English cudgel (“knotty club”). The ultimate origin could be related to English cog (“cargo boat”) (Dutch kogge), probably named for its “round swollen” appearance.
From Middle English cogge, from Middle Dutch kogge, cogghe (modern kogge), from Proto-Germanic *kuggō, from Proto-Indo-European *gugā (“hump, ball”) (compare Lithuanian gugà (“pommel, hump, hill”)), from *gēw- (“to bend, arch”). See etymology 1 above.
Uncertain. Both verb and noun appear first in 1532.
Uncertain. Both verb and noun appear first in 1532.
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