Definitions for cogged

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Spelling: [kogd]

IPA: /kɒgd/

Cogged is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 60 anagrams from letters in cogged (cdeggo).

Definitions for cogged

noun

1. (not in technical use) a gear tooth, formerly especially one of hardwood or metal, fitted into a slot in a gearwheel of less durable material.
2. a cogwheel.
3. a person who plays a minor part in a large organization, activity, etc.:
4. Carpentry. (in a cogged joint) the tongue in one timber, fitting into a corresponding slot in another.
5. Mining. a cluster of timber supports for a roof. Compare chock (def 4).

Idioms

1. slip a cog, to make a blunder; err:

adjective

1. having cogs.

verb (used with object)

1. to roll or hammer (an ingot) into a bloom or slab.
2. to manipulate or load (dice) unfairly.

verb (used without object)

1. (of an electric motor) to move jerkily.
2. to cheat, especially at dice.

verb (used with or without object)

1. Carpentry. to join with a cog.

Origin of cogged

First recorded in 1815-25; cog¹ + -ed³

Examples for cogged

The wheel will be revolved by a motor geared to the cogged part of the rim.

It existed also among the Romans, as proved by the 'cogged' or loaded dice dug up at Herculaneum.

Victory unassuaged was theirs, and for them Fortune had cogged her dice.

Some spits were mechanized with a cogged wheel and a weight at the end of a string.

Artifacts in association: possible feature 15C and a cogged stone found about 18 inches away.

The sea was their gaming table and it was their ill luck if the dice were cogged.

The "cogged joint," used for connecting purlins to rafter and joists to girders, is illustrated in Fig. 353.

One set will be cogged, and will be used when the locomotives are engaged in towing.

The railway has a central rail which is cogged, and into this endless cog fits a wheel underneath the engine.

One schoolboy will sometimes copy from another:—'You cogged that sum.'