Galley vs Cog - What's the difference?
galley | cog |
(nautical) 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.
(British) 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.
(label) A ship of burden, or war with a round, bulky hull.
*, Bk.V, Ch.iv:
*:As the Kynge was in his cog and lay in his caban, he felle in a slumberyng.
A tooth on a gear
A gear; a cogwheel
An unimportant individual in a greater system.
* 1976, Norman Denny (English translation),
* 1988,
(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.
To furnish with a cog or cogs.
to load (a die) so that it can be used to cheat
to cheat; to play or gamble fraudulently
* Jonathan Swift
To seduce, or draw away, by adulation, artifice, or falsehood; to wheedle; to cozen; to cheat.
* Shakespeare
To obtrude or thrust in, by falsehood or deception; to palm off.
* J. Dennis
As a noun galley
is (nautical) 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.As a symbol cog is
the iso 3166-1 three-letter (alpha-3) code for the republic of the congo.galley
English
Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* galleass * galley slave * galley-worm * galliotSee also
* bireme * trireme * quadrireme * unireme/monoreme/penteconter * quinquereme/pentere * polyremecog
English
(wikipedia cog)Etymology 1
From (etyl) cogge, from (etyl) kogge, cogghe (modern kogge), from (etyl) . See below.Noun
(en noun)Etymology 2
From (etyl) cogge, from (etyl) (compare (etyl) . The meaning of “cog” in carpentry derives from association with a tooth on a cogwheel.Noun
(en noun)- ‘There are twenty-five of us, but they don’t reckon I’m worth anything. I’m just a cog in the machine.’
- 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 .
Derived terms
* cog jointVerb
(cogg)Etymology 3
Uncertain origin. Both verb and noun appear first in 1532.Verb
(cogg)- For guineas in other men's breeches, / Your gamesters will palm and will cog .
- I'll cog their hearts from them.
- to cog in a word
- Fustian tragedies have, by concerted applauses, been cogged upon the town for masterpieces.