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cog-wood
[f. cog n.2]
A valuable timber-tree of Jamaica, Laurus (or Ceanothus) Chloroxylon.
1725Sloane Voy. Jamaica II. 85. 1756 P. Browne Jamaica 187 The Green-heart or Cogwood tree..The wood is very tough and hard, and observed to answer better than any other sort for the coggs used in the rolls of a sugar mill. 1814Lunan Hort. Jamaic. I. 228. |