Cog

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun A small fishing boat.

II. Cog ·vt To furnish with a cog or cogs.

III. Cog ·noun A tenon in a scarf joint; a coak.

IV. Cog ·noun A trick or deception; a falsehood.

V. Cog ·noun One of the rough pillars of stone or coal left to support the roof of a mine.

VI. Cog ·vt To obtrude or thrust in, by falsehood or deception; as, to cog in a word; to palm off.

VII. Cog ·noun 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.

VIII. Cog ·vt To seduce, or draw away, by adulation, artifice, or falsehood; to Wheedle; to Cozen; to Cheat.

IX. Cog ·vi To Deceive; to Cheat; to play false; to Lie; to Wheedle; to Cajole.

X. Cog ·noun 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.

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