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 contrivance in machinery by which a rotatory motion is converted into a reciprocating motion.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir
Butter is made in one of their pots with a churning-stick, consisting of a cogged wheel fixed on to the end of a wooden rod.
From The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II by Russell, R. V. (Robert Vane)
A cogged joint is stronger than a notched because the upper beam is not weakened at its point of support.
From Handwork in Wood by Noyes, William
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