Cog /(kŏg)/

Cog

v. t.

imp. & p. p. Cogged; p. pr. & vb. n. Cogging

  1. To seduce, or draw away, by adulation, artifice, or falsehood; to wheedle; to cozen; to cheat. [R.]
    I'll . . . cog their hearts from them.
  2. To obtrude or thrust in, by falsehood or deception; as, to cog in a word; to palm off. [R.]
    Fustian tragedies . . . have, by concerted applauses, been cogged upon the town for masterpieces.
    — J. Dennis
    To cog a die, to load so as to direct its fall; to cheat in playing dice.

Cog

v. i.
  1. To deceive; to cheat; to play false; to lie; to wheedle; to cajole.
    For guineas in other men's breeches, Your gamesters will palm and will cog.

Cog

n.
  1. A trick or deception; a falsehood.

Cog

n.
  1. 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. (Mech.)
  2. 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. (Carp.)
  3. One of the rough pillars of stone or coal left to support the roof of a mine. (Mining.)

Cog

v. t.
  1. To furnish with a cog or cogs.

Phrases & Compounds
Cogged breath sound
a form of interrupted respiration, in which the interruptions are very even, three or four to each inspiration.

Cog

n.
  1. A small fishing boat.