1. cog - Noun
2. cog - Verb
3. Cog - Proper noun
To seduce, or draw away, by adulation, artifice, or falsehood; to wheedle; to cozen; to cheat.
To obtrude or thrust in, by falsehood or deception; as, to cog in a word; to palm off.
To deceive; to cheat; to play false; to lie; to wheedle; to cajole.
A trick or deception; a falsehood.
A tooth, cam, or catch for imparting or receiving motion, as on a gear wheel, or a lifter or wiper on a shaft; originally, a separate piece of wood set in a mortise in the face of a wheel.
A kind of tenon on the end of a joist, received into a notch in a bearing timber, and resting flush with its upper surface.
A tenon in a scarf joint; a coak.
One of the rough pillars of stone or coal left to support the roof of a mine.
A small fishing boat.
Source: Webster's dictionaryYou pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you fear you are an interchangeable cog. Douglas Coupland
To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering. Aldo Leopold
I was just a screw or cog in the great machine I called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was of no use anywhere else. Edith Wharton
I surrendered my moral conscience to the fact that I was a soldier, and therefore a cog in a relatively low position of a great machine. Otto Ohlendorf
The individual has become a mere cog in an enormous organization of things and powers which tear from his hands all progress, spirituality, and value in order to transform them from their subjective form into the form of a purely objective life. Georg Simmel
It is better to go to defeat with free will than to live in a meaningless security as a cog in a machine. Isaac Asimov