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galley
English
Etymology
From Middle English galeie, from Old French galee, from Latin galea, from Byzantine Greek ????? (galéa) of unknown origin, probably from Ancient Greek ????? (galé?), a kind of a small fish, from ?????? (galeós, “dog-fish or small shark”). Doublet of galea.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??æli/
- Rhymes: -æli
Noun
galley (plural galleys)
- (nautical, historical) A long, slender ship propelled primarily by oars, whether having masts and sails or not; usually referring to rowed warships used in the Mediterranean from the 16th century until the modern era.
- (Britain) A light, open boat used on the Thames by customhouse officers, press gangs, and also for pleasure.
- (nautical) One of the small boats carried by a man-of-war.
- (nautical) The cookroom or kitchen and cooking apparatus of a vessel or aircraft; sometimes on merchant vessels called the caboose.
- An oblong oven or muffle with a battery of retorts; a gallery furnace.
- (printing) An oblong tray of wood or brass, with upright sides, for holding type which has been set, or is to be made up, etc.
- (printing) A proof sheet taken from type while on a galley; a galley proof.
- (heraldry) A representation of a single masted ship propelled by oars, with three flags and a basket.
Synonyms
- (heraldry) lymphad
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- bireme
- trireme
- quadrireme
- unireme/monoreme/penteconter
- quinquereme/pentere
- polyreme
- Galley Common
Further reading
- galley on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- egally
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cog
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: k?g, IPA(key): /k??/
- (General American) enPR: k?g, kôg, IPA(key): /k??/, /k??/
- Rhymes: -??, -???
Etymology 1
From Middle English cogge, from Old Norse [Term?] (compare Norwegian kugg (“cog”), Swedish kugg, kugge (“cog, tooth”)), from Proto-Germanic *kugg? (compare Dutch kogge (“cogboat”), German Kock), from Proto-Indo-European *gug? (“hump, ball”) (compare Lithuanian gugà (“pommel, hump, hill”)), from *g?w- (“to bend, arch”).
The meaning of “cog” in carpentry derives from association with a tooth on a cogwheel.
Noun
cog (plural cogs)
- A tooth on a gear.
- A gear; a cogwheel.
- An unimportant individual in a greater system.
- 1976, Norman Denny (English translation), Victor Hugo (original French), Les Misérables
- ‘There are twenty-five of us, but they don’t reckon I’m worth anything. I’m just a cog in the machine.’
- 1988, David Mamet, Speed-the-Plow
- Your boss tells you “take initiative,” you best guess right—and you do, then you get no credit. Day-in, … smiling, smiling, just a cog.
- 1976, Norman Denny (English translation), Victor Hugo (original French), Les Misérables
- (carpentry) A projection or tenon at the end of a beam designed to fit into a matching opening of another piece of wood to form a joint.
- (mining) One of the rough pillars of stone or coal left to support the roof of a mine.
Derived terms
- cog joint
Translations
Verb
cog (third-person singular simple present cogs, present participle cogging, simple past and past participle cogged)
- To furnish with a cog or cogs.
Etymology 2
From Middle English cogge, from Middle Dutch kogge, cogghe (modern kogge), from Proto-Germanic *kugg? (compare German Kock (“cogboat”), Norwegian kugg (“cog (gear tooth)”)), from Proto-Indo-European *gug? (“hump, ball”) (compare Lithuanian gugà (“pommel, hump, hill”)), from *g?w- (“to bend, arch”). See etymology 1 above.
Noun
cog (plural cogs)
- (historical) A ship of burden, or war with a round, bulky hull.
Translations
Etymology 3
Uncertain origin. Both verb and noun appear first in 1532.
Noun
cog (plural cogs)
- A trick or deception; a falsehood.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of William Watson to this entry?)
Translations
Verb
cog (third-person singular simple present cogs, present participle cogging, simple past and past participle cogged)
- To load (a die) so that it can be used to cheat.
- To cheat; to play or gamble fraudulently.
- 1726, Jonathan Swift (debated), Molly Mog
- For guineas in other men's breeches, / Your gamesters will palm and will cog.
- 1726, Jonathan Swift (debated), Molly Mog
- 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; to palm off.
- October 3, 1718, John Dennis, letter to S. T. , Esq; On the Deceitfulness of Rumour
- Fustian tragedies […] have […] been cogg'd upon the town for Master-pieces.
- October 3, 1718, John Dennis, letter to S. T. , Esq; On the Deceitfulness of Rumour
Translations
Etymology 4
From Old English cogge.
Alternative forms
- cogue
Noun
cog (plural cogs)
- A small fishing boat.
- Alternative form of cogue (“wooden vessel for milk”)
Anagrams
- CGO, OGC
Irish
Etymology
Back-formation from cogadh (“war”).
Verb
cog (present analytic cogann, future analytic cogfaidh, verbal noun cogadh, past participle cogtha)
- (rare or archaic) to war, wage war
Conjugation
Mutation
Further reading
- “cog” in Foclóir Gae?ilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 1st ed., 1904, by Patrick S. Dinneen, page 158.
Middle English
Etymology
From Old French cogue, itself from Middle Dutch kogge.
Noun
cog
- a ship of burden, or war with a round, bulky hull
- As the Kynge was in his cog and lay in his caban, he felle in a slumberyng […].
Further reading
- Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.
Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
Back-formation from cogadh (“war, fighting”).
Verb
cog (past chog, future cogaidh, verbal noun cogadh, past participle cogte)
- fight
Welsh
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ko??/
Etymology 1
From Middle Welsh cog, from Proto-Brythonic *kok?, ultimately imitative, similar to Old High German k? (“crow, jackdaw”), Middle Low German kâ (“crow, jackdaw”).
Noun
cog f (plural cogau)
- cuckoo
Usage notes
- Cog is usually found preceded by the definite article, y gog.
Synonyms
- (cuckoo): cwcw
Etymology 2
Borrowed through Vulgar Latin from Latin coquus
Noun
cog m (plural cogau or cygod)
- cook
- Synonym: cogydd
Mutation
Further reading
- R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present) , “cog”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
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