Cog

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1. Verb

To seduce, or draw away, by adulation, artifice, or falsehood; to wheedle; to cozen; to cheat.

2. Verb

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

3. Verb

To deceive; to cheat; to play false; to lie; to wheedle; to cajole.

4. Noun

A trick or deception; a falsehood.

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. Noun

A tenon in a scarf joint; a coak.

8. Noun

One of the rough pillars of stone or coal left to support the roof of a mine.

9. Verb

To furnish with a cog or cogs.

10. Noun

A small fishing boat.

11. Noun

tooth on the rim of gear wheel
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