Word Meaning

cog definition and meaning

v. t. To seduce, or draw away, by adulation, artifice, or falsehood; to wheedle; to cozen; to cheat.
v. t. To obtrude or thrust in, by falsehood or deception; as, to cog in a word; to palm off.
v. i. To deceive; to cheat; to play false; to lie; to wheedle; to cajole.
n. A trick or deception; a falsehood.
n. 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.
n. 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.
n. A tenon in a scarf joint; a coak.
n. One of the rough pillars of stone or coal left to support the roof of a mine.
v. t. To furnish with a cog or cogs.
n. A small fishing boat.

Crossword clues for cog

- A small ... in a big machine
- Gear tooth
- Gearwheel projection
- Gearwheel tooth
- Recognised part of gearwheel
- Sprocket
- Tobacco grower has metal tooth
- Tooth on a wheel
- Toothed wheel
- Wheel tooth
- Wheel tooth needed in silent coding