▪ I. cogged, ppl. a.1
(kɒgd)
[f. cog n.2 or v.1]
1. a. Furnished with cogs; having cog-wheels.
| 1825 J. Nicholson Operat. Mechanic 654 A toothed rack..into which a toothed or cogged wheel..plays. 1862 Smiles Engineers III. 97 Cogwheels which acted on the cogged rail. 1879 Cath. & Craufurd Tait 561 There we changed into the cogged cars, and went sheer up the face of the mountain. |
b. Med. cogged-wheel breathing, rhythm: a term for a jerky respiratory sound in chest-affections, somewhat resembling the sound of a cogged wheel in motion.
| 1881 in Syd. Soc. Lex. 1886 Fagge Princ. Med. I. 963, I have repeatedly noticed that the separate sounds which make up cogged-wheel breathing are synchronous with as many cardiac pulsations. Ibid., In all probability the ‘cogged-wheel rhythm’ was due to the action upon the healthy lung of an irritable heart. |
2. (See quot. 1888.) Cf. cog v.1 4.
| 1888 Lockwood's Dict. Mech. Engin. 76 Cogged bloom, a bloom or crude mass of steel which has been passed through the cogging mill in readiness for rolling into rails or other sections. 1925 Jrnl. Iron & Steel Inst. CXI. 57 Since the introduction of heavier ingots, reheating the cogged bloom has become standard practice at most rail and section mills. |
▪ II. cogged, ppl. a.2
(kɒgd)
[f. cog v.3 + -ed.]
1. Corruptly influenced, as the throw of dice is by cogging.
| 1781 Westm. Mag. IX. 604 A game more desperate, call'd ‘Election’, When each grave Senator the sport promotes, And throws the main with—cogg'd and loaded votes. |
† 2. Fraudulently palmed off; feigned in order to cheat; pretended. Obs.
| 1589 Nashe Anat. Absurditie 6 Minerals, stones, and herbes, should not haue such cogged natures and names ascribed to them without cause. a 1656 Bp. Hall Serm. John vii. 24 (R.) There is much cozenage of the poore people by cogged miracles. |
¶ 3. Of dice: Loaded. (A misuse, owing to misapprehension of what ‘cogging a die’ meant.)
| 1806–7 J. Beresford Miseries Hum. Life (1826) vi. xxxi, When all is done your dice might as well be cogged. 1834 Lytton Pompeii iv. iii, Clodius reddened with anger on being presented to a set of cogged dice. 1872 Morley Voltaire (1886) 169 On the ground that France and Austria were both playing with cogged dice. |