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Definition of Cog
Pronunciation: kǒg | v. t. | 1. | | | 1. | To seduce, or draw away, by adulation, artifice, or falsehood; to wheedle; to cozen; to cheat. | | 2. | To obtrude or thrust in, by falsehood or deception; as, to cog in a word; to palm off. | | v. i. | 1. | To deceive; to cheat; to play false; to lie; to wheedle; to cajole. | | n. | 1. | A trick or deception; a falsehood. | | 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. | | 2. | (Carp.) 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. | | 3. | (Mining.) One of the rough pillars of stone or coal left to support the roof of a mine. | | v. t. | 1. | To furnish with a cog or cogs. | | n. | 1. | A small fishing boat. |
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comb, commonality, commonalty, crag, creature, fang, flunky, follower, harrow, hoi polloi, inferior, jag, junior, lightweight, lower class, lower orders, masses, pawn, peak, pecten, projection, rake, ratchet, sawtooth, second fiddle, secondary, snag, snaggle, spire, sprocket, spur, steeple, subaltern, subordinate, third stringer, tooth, underling, understrapper, yes-man
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