Cog — Defs

01 v. t. To seduce, or draw away, by adulation, artifice, or falsehood; to wheedle; to cozen; to cheat.

imp. & p. p. Cogged; p. pr. & vb. n. Cogging

1.
To seduce, or draw away, by adulation, artifice, or falsehood; to wheedle; to cozen; to cheat.[R.]
“I'll . . . cog their hearts from them.” — Shak.
2.
To obtrude or thrust in, by falsehood or deception; as, to cog in a word; to palm off.[R.]
“Fustian tragedies . . . have, by concerted applauses, been cogged upon the town for masterpieces.” — J. Dennis

“To cog a die, to load so as to direct its fall; to cheat in playing dice.” — Swift.

02 v. i. To deceive; to cheat; to play false; to lie; to wheedle; to cajole.

1.
To deceive; to cheat; to play false; to lie; to wheedle; to cajole.
“For guineas in other men's breeches, Your gamesters will palm and will cog.” — Swift.

03 n. A trick or deception; a falsehood.

04 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…

1.
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.(Mech.)
2.
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.(Carp.)
3.
One of the rough pillars of stone or coal left to support the roof of a mine.(Mining.)

05 v. t. To furnish with a cog or cogs.

Phrases & compounds

Cogged breath sound — a form of interrupted respiration, in which the interruptions are very even, three or four to each inspiration.

06 n. A small fishing boat.