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Cog

noun

A subordinate who performs an important but routine function.

Tooth on the rim of gear wheel. Synonym: sprocket.

verb

(past & past part. cogged; pres. part. cogging)

Roll steel ingots.

Join pieces of wood with cogs.

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"Cog" Quotes from Famous Books

... a peculiar genius for organization, not only in elaborating minute detail, but in the grasp of a coherent whole. She knows the art of giving a brain to a machine, of transmitting power to the uttermost cog-wheel, and at the same time of concentrating responsibility in a supreme centre. She has a small navy, but very effective for its purpose, built, trained, and manned on methodical principles, for defined ...

— Riddle of the Sands • Erskine Childers

... an infinitesimal speck. Even our sun, round which a system of worlds revolve and which appears so mighty and majestic to us, is but an atom, a very small one, in the infinitude of matter and as a cog, would not be missed in the ratchet wheel which fits into the grand machinery ...

— Marvels of Modern Science • Paul Severing

... I regarded the next process (akin to being passed through a mangle) as child's play. To my amazement, after a few minutes amongst giant cog-wheels, I again found the light on the down-going staircase, which precipitated me to the spot from ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, June 25, 1919 • Various

... was done with my recital he sat with his eyes wide open, seeming to wonder whether my reason had slipped a cog. ...

— The Jucklins - A Novel • Opie Read

... It was just that unvarying smooth routine, that endless grinding away at the same familiar things that to-day, when everything about him spoke of change and growth and freedom, was making him restless and perturbed. He was just a cog in the ever-turning wheel. He was a slave to his desk, and not the less a slave because his chains happened ...

— Doubloons--and the Girl • John Maxwell Forbes

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