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pawn | cog |

As a noun pawn

is (label) the most common chess piece, or a similar piece in a similar game in chess each side has eight; moves are only forward, attacks are only forward diagonally or en passant or pawn can be the state of being held as security for a loan, or as a pledge or pawn can be .

As a verb pawn

is (video games) to render one's opponent a mere pawn, especially in a real-time strategy games or pawn can be to pledge; to stake or wager.

As a symbol cog is

the iso 3166-1 three-letter (alpha-3) code for the republic of the congo.

pawn

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) paun, .

Noun

(en noun)
  • (label) The most common chess piece, or a similar piece in a similar game. In chess each side has eight; moves are only forward, attacks are only forward diagonally or en passant.
  • (label) Someone who is being manipulated or used to some end, usually not the end that individual would prefer.
  • :
  • *
  • *:“I'm through with all pawn -games,” I laughed. “Come, let us have a game of lansquenet. Either I will take a farewell fall out of you or you will have your sevenfold revenge”.
    • Synonyms
    * See also

    See also

    * * *

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (video games) To render one's opponent a mere pawn, especially in a real-time strategy games.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) , apparently from a Germanic language (compare Middle Dutch pant, Old High German pfant).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The state of being held as security for a loan, or as a pledge.
    • All our jewellery was in pawn by this stage.
  • * Shakespeare
    • My life I never held but as a pawn / To wage against thy enemies.
  • An instance of pawning something.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Redeem from broking pawn the blemish'd crown.
  • * John Donne
    • As the morning dew is a pawn of the evening fatness, so, O Lord, let this day's comfort be the earnest of to-morrow's.
  • An item given as security on a loan, or as a pledge.
  • *, New York, 2001, p.106:
    • Brokers, takers of pawns , biting userers, I will not admit; yet I will tolerate some kind of usery.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • As for mortgaging or pawning,men will not take pawns without use [i.e. interest].
  • (rare) A pawn shop, pawnbroker.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To pledge; to stake or wager.
  • To give as security on a loan of money; especially, to deposit (something) at a pawn shop.
  • * 1965 , (Bob Dylan), (Like a Rolling Stone)
    • But you'd better take your diamond ring, you'd better pawn it, babe.
    Synonyms
    * (to deposit at a pawn shop) hock

    Etymology 3

    Noun

    (-)

    • See also

    * pawn off

    Anagrams

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    cog

    English

    (wikipedia cog)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) cogge, from (etyl) kogge, cogghe (modern kogge), from (etyl) . See below.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (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.

    • 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)
  • A tooth on a gear
  • A gear; a cogwheel
  • An unimportant individual in a greater system.
  • * 1976, Norman Denny (English translation),
    • ‘There are twenty-five of us, but they don’t reckon I’m worth anything. I’m just a cog in the machine.’
  • * 1988,
    • 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 .
  • (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

    Verb

    (cogg)
  • To furnish with a cog or cogs.

    • Etymology 3

    Uncertain origin. Both verb and noun appear first in 1532.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A trick or deception; a falsehood.
    • (William Watson)

    Verb

    (cogg)
  • to load (a die) so that it can be used to cheat
  • to cheat; to play or gamble fraudulently
  • * Jonathan Swift
    • For guineas in other men's breeches, / Your gamesters will palm and will cog .
  • To seduce, or draw away, by adulation, artifice, or falsehood; to wheedle; to cozen; to cheat.
  • * Shakespeare
    • I'll cog their hearts from them.
  • To obtrude or thrust in, by falsehood or deception; to palm off.
    • to cog in a word
  • * J. Dennis
    • Fustian tragedies have, by concerted applauses, been cogged upon the town for masterpieces.

    Etymology 4

    From (etyl) cogge

    Alternative forms

    * cogue

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A small fishing boat
    • English terms with multiple etymologies ----