Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • See cog.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Scot. A small wooden vessel; a pail.

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  • noun A small wooden vessel.

Etymologies

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Of Unknown origin.

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Examples

  • _, who gives 'cogue' as exclusively Kentish, assigns precisely the same meaning.

    The Works of Aphra Behn Volume IV. Aphra Behn 1664

  • He called to Banks for a cogue of Nantsey, and swore amazingly at what he was pleased to term the inscrutability of woman, offering up consolation by the wholesale.

    Richard Carvel — Complete Winston Churchill 1909

  • He called to Banks for a cogue of Nantsey, and swore amazingly at what he was pleased to term the inscrutability of woman, offering up consolation by the wholesale.

    Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909

  • He called to Banks for a cogue of Nantsey, and swore amazingly at what he was pleased to term the inscrutability of woman, offering up consolation by the wholesale.

    Richard Carvel — Volume 06 Winston Churchill 1909

  • He called to Banks for a cogue of Nantsey, and swore amazingly at what he was pleased to term the inscrutability of woman, offering up consolation by the wholesale.

    Richard Carvel Churchill, Winston, 1871-1947 1899

  • I 'm sartin it's fair play ye want; an' I canna for the life o 'me see a hair o' wrang i 'yer lordship's gaein' in a cogue, as auld

    Malcolm George MacDonald 1864

  • D'Urfey, however, _Pills to Purge Melancholy_ (1719), vi, p. 351, has 'a cogue of good ale '.p. 227 _Groom Porter's.

    The Works of Aphra Behn Volume IV. Aphra Behn 1664

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