cog
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Noun
- A tooth on a gear.
- A gear; especially, a cogwheel.
- An unimportant individual in a greater system.
- 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.
- One of the rough pillars of stone or coal left to support the roof of a mine.
- A partially clinker-built, flat-bottomed, square-rigged mediaeval ship of burden or war, with a round, bulky hull and a single mast, typically 15 to 25 meters in length, in use from ca. 1150 to 1500.
- The hypothetical precursor ship type of the above said to be in use during the early Middle Ages, variously alleged to be Frisian or Scandinavian.
- A small fishing boat.
- A trick or deception; a falsehood.
- A small round wooden vessel for holding milk.
- Initialism of center of gravity.
- Abbreviation of course over ground.
Verb
- To furnish with a cog or cogs.
- Of an electric motor or generator, to snap preferentially to certain positions when not energized.
- To load (a die) so that it can be used to cheat.
- To cheat; to play or gamble fraudulently.
- To seduce, or draw away, by adulation, artifice, or falsehood; to wheedle; to cozen; to cheat.
- To plagiarize.
- To obtrude or thrust in, by falsehood or deception; to palm off.
Proper noun
- Initialism of Church of God: numerous, mostly unrelated Christian denominations.
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