'Cog' definitions:
Definition of 'cog'
From: WordNet
noun
A subordinate who performs an important but routine function; "he was a small cog in a large machine"
noun
Tooth on the rim of gear wheel [syn: cog, sprocket]
verb
Roll steel ingots
verb
Join pieces of wood with cogs
Definition of 'Cog'
From: GCIDE
- Cog \Cog\, n. [OE. cogge; cf. D. kog, Icel. kuggr Cf. Cock a boat.] A small fishing boat. --Ham. Nav. Encyc. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Cog'
From: GCIDE
- Cog \Cog\, v. i. To deceive; to cheat; to play false; to lie; to wheedle; to cajole. [1913 Webster]
- For guineas in other men's breeches, Your gamesters will palm and will cog. --Swift. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Cog'
From: GCIDE
- Cog \Cog\, n. A trick or deception; a falsehood. --Wm. Watson. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Cog'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Mining.) One of the rough pillars of stone or coal left to support the roof of a mine. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Cog'
From: GCIDE
- 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.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. To seduce, or draw away, by adulation, artifice, or falsehood; to wheedle; to cozen; to cheat. [R.] [1913 Webster]
- I'll . . . cog their hearts from them. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To obtrude or thrust in, by falsehood or deception; as, to cog in a word; to palm off. [R.] [1913 Webster]
- Fustian tragedies . . . have, by concerted applauses, been cogged upon the town for masterpieces. --J. Dennis [1913 Webster]
- To cog a die, to load so as to direct its fall; to cheat in playing dice. --Swift. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Cog'
From: GCIDE
- Cog \Cog\, v. t. To furnish with a cog or cogs. [1913 Webster]
- Cogged breath sound (Auscultation), a form of interrupted respiration, in which the interruptions are very even, three or four to each inspiration. --Quain. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'cog'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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