Middle English Dictionary Entry
cogge n.(2)
Entry Info
| Forms | cogge n.(2) Also cog. |
| Etymology | Prob. akin to OE cycgel knobbed stick, cudgel. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A tooth or cog (on a mill wheel); (b) the cogwheel (of a mill); cog-whel.
Associated quotations
a
- (1381) Halmote R.Dur.in Sur.Soc.82170 : Grossum meremium, et molas..velas, cogges.
- (1448-9) Acc.R.Dur.in Sur.Soc.99186 : In rep. de lez spyndillez et coggez molendini de Hemingb.
- (1457) Indent.Prior in Palaeog.Soc.3 (Hrl Charter 44.B.47)260 : Alle manere goyinge gere, that is to sey cogges and staves and seyleclothes..of the seid melle.
- a1500 Mayer Nominale (Mayer)725/7 : Striaballum: a cog of a welle.
b
- a1300 Owl & N.(Jes-O 29)86 : Þe were i-cundere to one frogge Þat sit at [m]ulne vnder cogge.
- (1354) in Hope Windsor C.1.166 : Pro cogwheles ad molendinum.
- (1399) Doc.Manor in MP 3457 : Cogwhel.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)85 : Cogge of a mylle: Scarioballum.
- ?a1500 Trin-C.LEDict.Suppl.(Trin-C O.5.4)610/27 : Scorioballum: a cogwhele.