Meanings
verbmiss a cog (third-person singular simple present misses a cog, present participle missing a cog, simple past and past participle missed a cog)
present singular third person misses a cog · participle present missing a cog · participle past missed a cog · past missed a cog
- To go wrong.
To-day something missed a cog and whatever it was N. is now all but satisfied that G.T. is not the authentic.
1934, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], The Bravo of London
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