[f. COG sb.2] A valuable timber-tree of Jamaica, Laurus (or Ceanothus) Chloroxylon.
1725. Sloane, Voy. Jamaica, II. 85.
1756. P. Browne, Jamaica, 187. The Greenheart 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.
1814. Lunan, Hortus Jamaic., I. 228.
