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"Gear tooth"2 answers
cog3 letterssprocket8 letters
Filled answer is this word (COG).
Definitions
join pieces of wood with cogs
Word origin
Inherited from Middle English cogge, from Old Norse *kogge, *koggr (see Old Swedish kogge, kogger), from Proto-Germanic *kuggō (“cog, swelling”), from Proto-Indo-European *gugā (“hump, ball”), from *gēw- (“to bend, arch”). Compare Lithuanian gugà (“pommel, hump, hill”).
Used in a sentence
“just a cog in the machine”
“1976, Norman Denny (English translation), Victor Hugo (original French), Les Misérables ‘There are twenty-five of us, but they don’t reckon I’m worth anything. I’m just a cog in the machine.’”
“1988, David Mamet, Speed-the-Plow Your boss tells you “take initiative,” you best guess right—and you do, then you get no credit. Day-in, … smiling, smiling, just a cog.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Gear tooth”3 letters
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