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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 650 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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COG . (r) (From' an older cogge, a word which appears in various forms in See also:

Teutonic See also:languages, as in O. Ger. kogge or kocke, and also in Romanic, as in O. Fr. cogue, or coque, from which the Eng. " See also:cock-See also:boat " is derived; the connexion between the Teutonic and the Romanic forms is obscure), a broadly built, See also:round-shaped See also:ship, used as a trader and also as a ship of See also:war till the 15th See also:century. (2) (A word of obscure origin, possibly connected with Fr. coche, and Ital. cocca, a notch; the See also:Celtic forms cog and cocas come from the See also:English), a tooth in a See also:series of See also:teeth, morticed on to, or. cut out of the circumference of a See also:wheel, which See also:works with the tooth in a corresponding series on another wheel (see See also:MECHANICS). (3) (Also of quite obscure origin), a See also:slang See also:term for a See also:form of See also:cheating at See also:dice. The See also:early uses of the word show that this was done not by " loading " the dice, as the See also:modern use of the expression of " cogged dice " seems to imply, but by sleight of See also:hand in directing the fall or in changing the dice.

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