▪ I. cogger1
(ˈkɒgə(r))
[f. cog n.2 and v.1 + -er.]
1. One who puts cogs in a wheel.
| 1775 in Ash. |
2. Mining. One who builds up supports with cogs or chocks.
| In mod. Dicts. |
▪ II. cogger2
(ˈkɒgə(r))
[f. cog v.3 + -er.]
One who cogs at dice. b. A sharper, cheat, deceiver, beguiler. c. A false flatterer, fawner.
| 1576 J. Woolton Chr. Manual (1851) 105 Stealers, cut⁓purses, coggers, dicers. 1580 Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong., Pipeur, a deceiuer, a beguiler, a cogger. 1583 Stanyhurst æneis ii. (Arb.) 46 Sinon a caytiefe by fortun..A lyer hym neauer may she make, nor cogger vnhonest. 1611 Cotgr., Adulateur, a flatterer, cogger, smoother. 1639 S. du Verger tr. Camus' Admir. Events 147 As for Coggers and Cheaters [at dice]. 1783 Ainsworth Lat. Dict. (Morell) ii, Palpator, a flatterer, coger, cajoler, sycophant, glozer. 1846 Landor Exam. Shaks. Wks. II. 263 O sir, do not let him turn the tables against me, who am only a simple stripling, and he an old cogger. |