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
In the inside of the box under the dog is a little cogged wheel, which, when the handle is turned, rubs against pieces of metal and produces the musical sounds.
From Chatterbox, 1905. by Various
It was about thirty feet long, by ten in breadth, rode on four broad cogged wheels, and was set on strong, flexible springs.
From Jack Wright and His Electric Stage; or, Leagued Against the James Boys by
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