cogged
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- uncogged adjective
Etymology
Origin of cogged
Example Sentences
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The battery operated Space Express has cogged wheels and can travel vertically up or upside down on a cogged track.
From Nature • Dec. 17, 2018
And then there's the marvellous Druzhba sanatorium by the sea at Yalta, a stack of cogged carousels rising out of a bank of trees, each notch a living space.
From The Guardian • Feb. 7, 2011
A cogged wheel is so mounted that a ray of light passes between two of the teeth and is reflected back from a mirror.
From The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told by Thomson, J. Arthur
There followed the keen, quick rattling of a cogged wheel and a rush of people who seemed insufficiently impressed by the magnitude of the event.
From Ewing\'s Lady by Wilson, Harry Leon
Dame fortune, in her best humour, with all her cogged dice in the bargain, could not, as Collins himself thought, have thrown him a luckier hit.
From The Life of Benjamin Franklin With Many Choice Anecdotes and admirable sayings of this great man never before published by any of his biographers by Weems, Mason Locke
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