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
They were grooved and the grooves were lined with steel which was cogged to receive a toothed wheel.
From The City in the Clouds by Gull, C. Ranger
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
The railway has a central rail which is cogged, and into this endless cog fits a wheel underneath the engine.
From From the Thames to the Tiber or, My visit to Paris, Rome, Florence, Venice, Milan, Switzerland, etc. by Wardle, J.
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