cogging

Verb (1)

cog (third-person singular simple present cogs, present participle cogging, simple past and past participle cogged)

1. To furnish with a cog or cogs.
2. (intransitive) Of an electric motor or generator, to snap preferentially to certain positions when not energized.

Verb (2)

cog (third-person singular simple present cogs, present participle cogging, simple past and past participle cogged)

1. To load (a die) so that it can be used to cheat.
2. To cheat; to play or gamble fraudulently.
   • For guineas in other men's breeches, / Your gamesters will palm and will cog.1726, Jonathan Swift (debated), Molly Mog
3. To seduce, or draw away, by adulation, artifice, or falsehood; to wheedle; to cozen; to cheat.
   • I'll mountebank their loves,
     Cog their hearts from them.c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
4. To plagiarize.
   • […] his themes and exercises were in constant demand for what we called cogging and American students rather grandly called plagiarization. Shakespeare and Eliot plagiarized; we grimly cogged in the early morning-oh, […]1979, Tri-Quarterly, numbers 46-47, page 273

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