cog

A poor cog in the machine, she seemed to feel no more disgrace than a blood-diamond miner.

You might be a cog at a trading desk, compensated with nothing but money.

The apples are heaped on all sides, and are first crushed between wooden cog-wheels and caught in tubs.

Nay,” returned Mr. Archer with a smile, “no man can put complete reliance in blind fate; he must still cog the dice.

Each one is a cog in the vast organization and one slip may disrupt the whole arrangement.

Back in the East, things have been settled for so long that a man's only a cog in a machine.

Here, though, was evidence either that the War Lord was running out of metal or that his system had slipped a cog.