cogged

[kogd]

adjective

1. having cogs. cog.

Other Word Forms

• uncogged adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of cogged¹

First recorded in 1815–25; cog ¹ + -ed ³

Example Sentences

The battery operated Space Express has cogged wheels and can travel vertically up or upside down on a cogged track.

From Nature

The teeth of the cogged wheel are usually made the thickest, so as to somewhat equalise the strength of the teeth on the two wheels.

From Project Gutenberg

It was about a month after this that I began to find myself pitted against Miss Dean in a struggle for some dimly grasped advantage, with the dice cogged against me.

From Project Gutenberg

The railway has a central rail which is cogged, and into this endless cog fits a wheel underneath the engine. 

From Project Gutenberg

He telleth it thus, in no more words, no fewer: 'I cast dice with Three; three grisly hags, and I lose, though the tesser� were cogged!'

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