cog

Etymology 1
From, from (compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬), from  (compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬), from  (compare 🇨🇬), from.

The meaning of “cog” in carpentry derives from association with a tooth on a cogwheel.

Noun

 * 1) A tooth on a gear.
 * 2) A gear; a cogwheel.
 * 3) An unimportant individual in a greater system.
 * 4) * 1976, Norman Denny (English translation), Victor Hugo (original French), Les Misérables
 * ‘There are twenty-five of us, but they don’t reckon I’m worth anything. I’m just a cog in the machine.’
 * 1) * 1988, David Mamet, Speed-the-Plow
 * Your boss tells you “take initiative,” you best guess right—and you do, then you get no credit. Day-in, … smiling, smiling, just a cog.
 * 1)  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.
 * 2)  One of the rough pillars of stone or coal left to support the roof of a mine.

Translations

 * Belarusian: зубе́ц
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:, tandwieltand
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: ,
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:, 톱니
 * Macedonian: запче
 * Maori: nihowhiti, nihowhiti
 * Norwegian:
 * Plautdietsch: Zak
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: fiacaill
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: зу́бац
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: zub
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Thai: ฟันเฟือง
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:


 * Catalan:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:, niquifate, belanxín
 * German:
 * Italian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: зупчаничић, шрафић
 * Roman: zupčaničić, šrafić
 * Swedish:


 * Bulgarian: ца́пфа
 * German:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Roman: фе́дер

Verb

 * 1) To furnish with a cog or cogs.
 * 2)  Of an electric motor or generator, to snap preferentially to certain positions when not energized.

Etymology 2
From, from , (modern ), from  (compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬), from  (compare 🇨🇬), from. See etymology 1 above.

Noun

 * 1)   A 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.
 * 2)  A small fishing boat.
 * 1)  A small fishing boat.

Translations

 * Catalan:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian: кога
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:

Etymology 3
. Both verb and noun appear first in 1532.

Noun

 * 1) A trick or deception; a falsehood.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Dutch:

Verb

 * 1) To load (a die) so that it can be used to cheat.
 * 2) To cheat; to play or gamble fraudulently.
 * 3) * 1726, (debated), Molly Mog
 * For guineas in other men's breeches, / Your gamesters will palm and will cog.
 * 1) To seduce, or draw away, by adulation, artifice, or falsehood; to wheedle; to cozen; to cheat.
 * 2) To plagiarize.
 * 3) To obtrude or thrust in, by falsehood or deception; to palm off.
 * 4) * October 3, 1718, John Dennis, letter to S. T., Esq; On the Deceitfulness of Rumour
 * Fustian tragedies havebeen cogg'd upon the town for Master-pieces.
 * 1) To obtrude or thrust in, by falsehood or deception; to palm off.
 * 2) * October 3, 1718, John Dennis, letter to S. T., Esq; On the Deceitfulness of Rumour
 * Fustian tragedies havebeen cogg'd upon the town for Master-pieces.
 * 1) * October 3, 1718, John Dennis, letter to S. T., Esq; On the Deceitfulness of Rumour
 * Fustian tragedies havebeen cogg'd upon the town for Master-pieces.

Translations

 * Dutch: ,

Etymology
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Verb

 * 1)  to war, wage war

Etymology
From, itself from.

Noun

 * 1) a ship of burden, or war with a round, bulky hull

Etymology
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Verb

 * 1) fight

Etymology 1
From, from , ultimately , similar to 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) cuckoo

Usage notes

 * Cog is usually found preceded by the definite article, y gog.

Etymology 2
From, from , from.