Definitions for cogs

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Spelling: [kog, kawg]

IPA: /kɒg, kɔg/

Cogs is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 21 anagrams from letters in cogs (cgos).

Definitions for cogs

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:

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 cogs

1200-50; Middle English cogge, probably Scandinavian; compare Swedish, Norwegian kugg cog

Examples for cogs

The Emperor Napoleon has visited some of his hospitals in cog.

You might be a cog at a trading desk, compensated with nothing but money.

The goat gies a gude milking, but she ca's ower the cog wi' her feet.

From the upper piece a notch is cut only wide enough to receive the cog.

The young gintlemen are two princes that are travelling in cog.

"The ancestral crank has slipped a cog," Opdyke returned profanely.

It is feeling the whole of the ship that makes being a cog worth while.

It proved that not only the seams had to be calked but that the cog Thomas was out of fresh water.

I hae had better kail in my cog, and ne'er gae them a keytch.

Dr. Entman shook his head sadly, certain that Taber had slipped a cog.