COG

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Traducere în limba română

cog¹ substantiv

1. (tehn.) dinte, zimţ.

2. (fig.) rotiţă, intermediar, curea de transmisie.

3. îmbucătură, îmbinare (la tâmplărie).

4. (mine) armătură de stive de lemn sau metalice.

cog² verb A. tranzitiv

1. a înşela, a amăgi; a pungăşi, a sfeterisi;

(sl.) to cog a die, to cog the dice a măslui zarurile, a juca cu zaruri măsluite, a trişa la zaruri, a trage cu trei.

2. a dinţa, a zimţui.

cog² verb B. intranzitiv

1. a trişa la zaruri, a umbla cu zaruri măsluite.

2. a minţi / a înşela oamenii, a trage lumea pe sfoară.

cog³ substantiv

luntre pescărească, lotcă.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

Beaten back on to the deck of his own vessel, and closely followed by a dozen Englishmen, he disengaged himself from them, ran swiftly down the deck, sprang back into the cog once more, cut the rope which held the anchor, and was back in an instant among his crossbow-men.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There is a very proper cog out yonder, said Sir Nigel, it would be a very strange thing if any ship were not a war-ship when it had such men as these upon her decks.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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