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cog - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'cog' (Webster Dictionary)

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

Meaning of 'cog' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . cog [ n]
Meaning (1):
- a subordinate who performs an important but routine function
Example in sentence:
  • he was a small cog in a large machine