Thesaurus: cog

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1. v. t. To seduce, or draw away, by adulation, artifice, or falsehood; to wheedle; to cozen; to cheat.
2. v. t. To word/obtrude">obtrude or word/thrust">thrust in, by falsehood or deception; as, to cog in a word; to palm off.
3. v. i. To deceive; to cheat; to play false; to lie; to wheedle; to cajole.
4. n. A trick or deception; a falsehood.
5. n. 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.
6. n. 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.
7. n. A tenon in a scarf joint; a coak.
8. n. One of the rough pillars of stone or coal left to support the roof of a mine.
9. v. t. To furnish with a cog or cogs.
10. n. A small fishing boat.
11. n. a subordinate who performs an important but routine function
12. n. tooth on the rim of gear wheel