| 单词 | cogs and rungs |
| 释义 | > as lemmascogs and rungs b. spec. Any of the spokes in a wheel or bars in a revolving drum which engage with the cogs on another wheel (see cog n.2 1). Frequently in cogs and rungs: these components taken together; (also, in quot. 1621) the name of a dance tune. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > wheel > [noun] > cog or gear > lantern > parts of cogs and rungs?1287 staving1491 stave1845 rundle1875 society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > dance music > [noun] > specific dance tunes Sellenger's round1567 lusty gallant1569 cogs and rungs1621 Bobbing Joan1756 ?1287 in W. O. Ault Court Rolls Abbey of Ramsey (1928) 272 Allocatur eidem .xij. d. pro trendell' ronges cogges et byll'. 1349–50 in P. D. A. Harvey Manorial Rec. Cuxham (1976) 483 In Runges et cogges emptis ad rotas eiusdem viij d. 1477 in 24th Rep. Deputy Keeper Public Rec. Ireland (1892) 107 in Parl. Papers (C. 6765) XLIII. 601 (MED) [The miller to provide] cogges [and] ronges [for the mill wheels]. 1483–4 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1898) I. 249 (MED) Pro adquisicione de le cogges et ronges pro molendino de Milburne. ?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xliiiv To sell..the crabbe trees to mylners to make cogges and ronges. 1566 Extracts Rec. in W. Chambers Charters Burgh Peebles (1872) 302 And the millar to find cog roung and tallo and vthir gud seruice, batht to poir and riche. 1621 R. Brathwait Shepheards Tales in Natures Embassie 211 I am sure thou there shalt find, Measures store to please thy mind; Roundelayes, Irish-hayes, Cogs and rongs and Peggie Ramsie. 1685 in C. M. Armet Kirkcudbright Sheriff Court Deeds (1953) II. 211 [All necessary materials for upholding of the said milne except] irne naills cog rung spinnels and tallaw. 1775 J. Latimer Quadrature of Circle 27 All those who deal in tooth and pinion, and cog and rung, as clock-maker and mill-wrights. 1792 J. Morgan Attorney's Vade Mecum (new ed.) III. 280 The water..overflowed and greatly damaged, spoiled, injured, and broke to pieces, the said mill.., in divers parts thereof, to wit, in the wheels, alley boards, cogs and rungs thereof. 1825 Glasgow Mechanics' Mag. 27 Aug. 19/2 The old method of the cog and rung has the same advantage as to steadying the mill. 1866 Trans. Inst. Engineers Scotl. 9 92 The intermittent noise of this mill, which had wooden cogs and rungs, and a flat bar for the axle of the trundle, attracted his attention and taught him his first lessons in wheel work and gearing. 1914 T. C. Cantrill Coal Mining i. 13 One end of the barrel was..built of bars or rungs, with which the upright cogs of a horizontal wheel were made to engage. 1969 Business Hist. Rev. 43 26 The whim gin, a distinct improvement on the cog-and-rung gin for winding coal, seems to have become common in Scotland before Tyneside. 2004 J. Langdon Mills in Medieval Econ. iii. 96 Clearly, from the numerous sets of cogs and rungs available in the Wolvesey case, they wore out relatively frequently. < as lemmas |
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