Cog
Cog (kog) , transitive verb
[Compare Welsh coegio to make void, to beceive, from coeg empty, vain, foolish. Compare Coax, transitive verb]
1.
To seduce, or draw away, by adulation, artifice, or falsehood; to wheedle; to cozen; to cheat. [Rare]
I'll... cog their hearts from them.
2.
To obtrude or thrust in, by falsehood or deception; as, to cog in a word; to palm off. [Rare]
Fustian tragedies... have, by concerted applauses, been cogged upon the town for masterpieces.
To cog a die, to load so as to direct its fall; to cheat in playing dice.
Cog , intransitive verb
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.
Cog , noun
A trick or deception; a falsehood. — Wm. Watson
Cog , noun
[Compare Swedish kugge a cog, or Welsh cocos the cogs of a wheel.]
1.
(Mechanics) 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.
(a) (Carpentry) 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)
(Carpentry) A tenon in a scarf joint; a coak. — Knight
3.
(Mining) One of the rough pillars of stone or coal left to support the roof of a mine.
Cog , transitive verb
To furnish with a cog or cogs.
Collocations (1)
Cogged breath sound (Auscultation) , a form of interrupted respiration, in which the interruptions are very even, three or four to each inspiration. — Quain
Cog , noun
[Old English cogge; compare Dutch kog, Icelandic kuggr Compare Cock a boat.]
A small fishing boat. — Ham. Nav. Encyc