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
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 Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua
I would ye would reconcile it to your conscience so to act to him as I would have you, for his injustice to the poor and for his cogged oaths.
From Privy Seal His Last Venture by Ford, Ford Madox
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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