Definition of "cogging" [cogging]

• Present participle of cog. (verb)

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• "I like a good freewheeling motor, in fact the more I learn about electric propulsion I have come to hate the rather significant resistance that some motors put up against spinning partially known as cogging (which appears to be very wasteful)."
• "I will serve this poor Queen as a subject should serve an imprisoned and wronged sovereign — they who placed me in her service have to blame themselves — who sent me hither, a gentleman trained in the paths of loyalty and honour, when they should have sought out some truckling, cogging, double-dealing knave, who would have been at once the observant page of the Queen, and the obsequious spy of her enemies."
• "“This must be some idle notion, Catharine, or some trick of those cogging priests and nuns; it accords not with thy late cheerful willingness to wed Henry Smith.”"