A gear; a cogwheel.
One of the rough pillars of stone or coal left to support the roof of a mine.
A tooth on a gear.
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.
A small fishing boat.
A trick or deception; a falsehood.
A clinker-built, flat-bottomed, square-rigged mediaeval ship of burden, or war with a round, bulky hull and a single mast, typically 15 to 25 meters in length.
An unimportant individual in a greater system.
To furnish with a cog or cogs.
To seduce, or draw away, by adulation, artifice, or falsehood; to wheedle; to cozen; to cheat.
To cheat; to play or gamble fraudulently.
Of an electric motor or generator, to snap preferentially to certain positions when not energized.
To plagiarize.
To load (a die) so that it can be used to cheat.
To obtrude or thrust in, by falsehood or deception; to palm off.
The lever or pedal that controls this valve.
A valve that regulates the supply of fuel-air mixture to an internal combustion engine and thus controls its speed; a similar valve that controls the air supply to an engine.
To utter with breaks and interruption, in the manner of a person half suffocated.
To have the throat obstructed so as to be in danger of suffocation; to choke; to suffocate.
To control or adjust the speed of (an engine).
To breathe hard, as when nearly suffocated.
To cut back on the speed of (an engine, person, organization, network connection, etc.).
To strangle or choke someone.