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Definition cog

Etymology 1

From Middle English cogge, from Old Norse [Term?] (compare Norwegian kugg (“cog”), Swedish kugg, kugge (“cog, tooth”)), from Proto-Germanic *kugg? (compare Dutch kogge (“cogboat”), German Kock), from Proto-Indo-European *gug? (“hump, ball”) (compare Lithuanian gugà (“pommel, hump, hill”)), from *g?w- (“to bend, arch”).

The meaning of “cog” in carpentry derives from association with a tooth on a cogwheel.

Noun

cog (plural cogs)

  1. A tooth on a gear.
  2. A gear; a cogwheel.
  3. An unimportant individual in a greater system.
  4. (carpentry) A projection or tenon at the end of a beam designed to fit into a matching opening of another piece of wood to form a joint.
  5. (mining) One of the rough pillars of stone or coal left to support the roof of a mine.
Verb

cog (third-person singular simple present cogs, present participle cogging, simple past and past participle cogged)

  1. To furnish with a cog or cogs.

Etymology 2

From Middle English cogge, from Middle Dutch kogge, cogghe (modern kogge), from Proto-Germanic *kugg? (compare German Kock (“cogboat”), Norwegian kugg (“cog (gear tooth)”)), from Proto-Indo-European *gug? (“hump, ball”) (compare Lithuanian gugà (“pommel, hump, hill”)), from *g?w- (“to bend, arch”). See etymology 1 above.

Noun

cog (plural cogs)

  1. (historical) A ship of burden, or war with a round, bulky hull.

Etymology 3

Uncertain origin. Both verb and noun appear first in 1532.

Noun

cog (plural cogs)

  1. A trick or deception; a falsehood.
Verb

cog (third-person singular simple present cogs, present participle cogging, simple past and past participle cogged)

  1. To load (a die) so that it can be used to cheat.
  2. To cheat; to play or gamble fraudulently.
  3. To seduce, or draw away, by adulation, artifice, or falsehood; to wheedle; to cozen; to cheat.
  4. To obtrude or thrust in, by falsehood or deception; to palm off.

Etymology 4

From Old English cogge.

Noun

cog (plural cogs)

  1. A small fishing boat.
  2. Alternative form of cogue (“wooden vessel for milk”)

Results 264 Words with the letters COG

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7 letter words with the letters COG 
6 letter words with the letters COG 
AGONIC 12
BECLOG 15
CARGOS 11
CHEGOE 13
CHIGOE 13
CHOUGH 16
CLOGGY 16
CLOUGH 15
CODGER 12
CODING 13
COGENT 12
COGGED 14
COGITO 11
COGNAC 15
COGONS 12
COGWAY 16
COHOGS 13
COIGNE 12
COIGNS 12
COKING 16
COLOGS 12
COLUGO 13
COMING 15
CONGAS 12
CONGEE 12
CONGER 12
CONGES 12
CONGII 12
CONGOS 12
CONGOU 13
CONING 13
COOING 12
COPING 15
CORGIS 11
CORING 12
COSIGN 12
COTING 12
COUGAR 12
COUGHS 14
COVING 16
COWAGE 14
COWING 15
COXING 19
COYDOG 14
COYING 14
CYBORG 16
GARCON 12
GASCON 12
GAUCHO 14
GECKOS 15
GEODIC 12
GLYCOL 15
GNOMIC 15
GOTCHA 13
GOTHIC 13
GROCER 11
GROUCH 14
GUACOS 12
INCOGS 12
LOGICS 12
ORGIAC 11
SOCAGE 11
UNCLOG 14
5 letter words with the letters COG 
CARGO 10
CLOGS 11
COGON 11
COHOG 12
COIGN 11
COLOG 11
CONGA 11
CONGE 11
CONGO 11
CORGI 10
COUGH 13
GECKO 14
GUACO 11
INCOG 11
LOGIC 11
ORGIC 10
YOGIC 12
4 letter words with the letters COG 
CLOG 10
COGS 9
3 letter words with the letters COG 
COG 8
2 letter words with the letters COG 
GO 4

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