Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Provided with cogs: as, a cogged wheel.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
cog .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having cogs
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Examples
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In the course of a few days after his arrival he made a kind of cogged or saw-toothed type, the object of which I understood was to regulate the interruptions of the electric current, so as to enable him to make dots, and regulate the length of marks or spaces on the paper upon which the information transmitted by his telegraph was to be recorded.
Letters and Journals 02] Morse, Samuel F B 1914
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Miss Delany tripped past me in her sky-blue tights to hold the audience spellbound with her jugglery, and spin plates and throw glittering knives until the satiated people turned to welcome Horan and his "cogged" dumbbells and clubs.
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In the course of a few days after his arrival he made a kind of cogged or saw-toothed type, the object of which I understood was to regulate the interruptions of the electric current, so as to enable him to make dots, and regulate the length of marks or spaces on the paper upon which the information transmitted by his telegraph was to be recorded.
Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals In Two Volumes, Volume II 1831
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a "cogged" billet and is of the proper size for the rolling mill or for the finishing hammer.
The Working of Steel Annealing, Heat Treating and Hardening of Carbon and Alloy Steel 1916
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Jerry remembered another high-grass adventure, when he and his brother Michael had fought Owmi, another black distinguishable for the cogged wheels of an alarm clock on his chest.
Chapter 1 2010
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I heard an alligator flop in the water and the drawbridge opening upstream, the great cogged wheels clanking together, a boat with a deep draft laboring against the incoming tide.
The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010
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I heard the cogged wheels under the drawbridge clank together and saw the bridge separate in the center and rise into the air.
The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010
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I heard an alligator flop in the water and the drawbridge opening upstream, the great cogged wheels clanking together, a boat with a deep draft laboring against the incoming tide.
The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010
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Evidently the great cogged wheels that raised and lowered the bridge had gotten stuck.
The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010
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I heard the cogged wheels under the drawbridge clank together and saw the bridge separate in the center and rise into the air.
The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010
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