cogwheeled

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adjective

Built or fitted with cogwheels.

OriginEnglish cogwheel ← Middle English whel ← Old English hwēol →
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Meanings

adjectivecogwheeled (not comparable)
  1. not comparableBuilt or fitted with cogwheels.

    As they approached, something whirred deep in its cogwheeled innards. The minute hand moved with a clonk, and shuddered to a halt on the 9.

    2002, Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man
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    The railway was cogwheeled and arranged in a series of six inclined planes which, in construction, bespeak considerable mechanical ingenuity...

    1905, Frank Bestow Wiborg, A Commercial Traveller in South America

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*gēw-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*gugā
  3. Proto-Germanic*kuggō
  4. Old Norse*koggr
  5. Middle Englishcogge
  6. Englishcog
  7. Proto-Indo-European*kʷelh₁-redup.
  8. Proto-Indo-European*kʷekʷléh₂
  9. Proto-Germanic*hweulō
  10. Old Englishhwēol
  11. Middle Englishwhel
  12. Englishwheel
  13. Englishcogwheel
  14. Englishcogwheeled

From cogwheel + -ed.

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cogwheeled. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cogwheeled

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Chicago

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