▪ I. cogging, vbl. n.1
(ˈkɒgɪŋ)
[f. cog v.3 + -ing1.]
The action of the verb cog3. a. Cheating at dice. b. Underhand dealing, deceit. c. Deceitful flattery; fawning.
| 1532 [see cog v.3 1]. 1563–87 Foxe A. & M. (1596) 1143/2 The unhonest dealing and false cogging of these men. 1599 James I βασιλ. Δωρον 125 As to dyceing..only ruled by hazarde, and subject to knavish cogging. 1652 Urquhart Jewel Wks. (1834) 276 A gnatonick sycophantizing, or parasitical cogging. 1656 S. Winter Serm. 176 b, By the slight (κυβεια the cogging of the die) of men. 1783 Ainsworth Lat. Dict. (Morell) ii, Assentatio, flattering, cogging, and soothing, adulation. 1862 Sala Seven Sons III. xii. 277 There had come an end to the lying, and cogging, and fawning, and deceiving. |
d. attrib.
| 1577 J. Northbrooke Dicing (1843) 118 If you did vnderstande..of their false dice, cogging termes, and orders, it will make you abhorre, detest, and defie all dice-playing. 1636 Abp. Williams Holy Table (1637) 226 It is his Cogging-box, to stricke what Casts of the Dice he lists to call for. |
▪ II. cogging, vbl. n.2
see cog v.2
▪ III. cogging, vbl. n.3
(ˈkɒgɪŋ)
[f. cog v.1 + -ing1.]
The action or process of rolling steel blooms from ingots. Also attrib. and Comb.
| 1878 Technol. Dict. (ed. 3) 150/1 Cogging-mill (Iron shipb.), das Vorwalzwerk. 1881 Instr. Census Clerks (1885) 92 Cogging Roller. 1888 Lockwood's Dict. Terms Mech. Engin. 76 Cogging engine, an ordinary rail-mill engine used for driving the cogging mill. Cogging mill, a rolling mill in which steel blooms are rolled out. 1921 Dict. Occup. Terms (1927) §279 Oiler;..cogging mill oiler. 1925 Glasgow Herald 31 Oct. 10 One of the cogging mills would also be put in operation. 1925 [see cog v.1 4]. 1951 Jrnl. Iron & Steel Inst. CLXVII. 165/1 The cutting of blooms and slabs is normally effected at ingot heat after cogging. |
▪ IV. ˈcogging, ppl. a.
[f. cog v.3 + -ing2.]
That cogs at dice; cheating; wheedling.
| 1542 Becon Pathw. Prayer Early Wks. (1843) 137 The world thinketh him to be a good, devout man, that goeth up and down with a cogging pair of beads in his hands. 1581 J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osor. 258 b, This Parasiticall Gallaunt..with hys cogging companion Sariga. 1603 Dekker Grissil (1841) 16 As many rich cogging merchants now-a-days do. 1604 Shakes. Oth. iv. ii. 132. 1608 Rowlands Humors Looking Gl. 24 A cogging knaue and fawning Parrasit. 1654 Trapp Comm. Job xiii. 9 God is not mocked, deluded..as patients are by their cogging quack-salvers. 1828 Scott F.M. Perth xxv, Some trick of those cogging priests and nuns. 1855 Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. 322 The cogging dicers of Whitefriars. |