Synonyms for cog
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : kog, kawg |
| Phonetic Transcription : kɒg, kɔg |
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Définition of cog
Origin :- c.1300, "cog wheel;" late 14c., "tooth on a wheel," probably a borrowing from a Scandinavian language (cf. Norwegian kugg "cog") and cognate with Middle High German kugel "ball."
- noun main part of device
- It is feeling the whole of the ship that makes being a Cog worth while.
- Extract from : « The Ghost in the White House » by Gerald Stanley Lee
- Dr. Entman shook his head sadly, certain that Taber had slipped a cog.
- Extract from : « Ten From Infinity » by Paul W. Fairman
- From the upper piece a notch is cut only wide enough to receive the cog.
- Extract from : « Handwork in Wood » by William Noyes
- The Emperor Napoleon has visited some of his hospitals in cog.
- Extract from : « A Journal of a Young Man of Massachusetts, 2nd ed. » by Benjamin Waterhouse
- I hae had better kail in my cog, and ne'er gae them a keytch.
- Extract from : « The Proverbs of Scotland » by Alexander Hislop
- The goat gies a gude milking, but she ca's ower the cog wi' her feet.
- Extract from : « The Proverbs of Scotland » by Alexander Hislop
- "The ancestral crank has slipped a cog," Opdyke returned profanely.
- Extract from : « The Brentons » by Anna Chapin Ray
- The young gintlemen are two princes that are travelling in cog.
- Extract from : « Klondike Nuggets » by E. S. Ellis
- It proved that not only the seams had to be calked but that the cog Thomas was out of fresh water.
- Extract from : « Sir Nigel » by Arthur Conan Doyle
- He started up and exclaimed, "Cog's 'ounds, what am I about?"
- Extract from : « Willy Reilly » by William Carleton
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