cogged
Americanadjective
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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 wheel is so mounted that a ray of light passes between two of the teeth and is reflected back from a mirror.
From The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told by Thomson, J. Arthur
The sea was their gaming table and it was their ill luck if the dice were cogged.
From Blackbeard: Buccaneer by Schoonover, Frank Earle
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
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