or Cog, a small fishing-boat upon the coasts of Yorkshire: and cogs (cogones) are a kind of little ships or vessels used in the rivers Ouse and Humber; (Stat. 23 Hen. VIII. c. 18.) Preparatis cognibus, galles, et alitis novibus, &c. (Mat. Paris, ann. 1666.) And hence the cognem, boatmen, and seamen, who, after shipwreck or losses by sea, traveled and wandered about to defraud the people, by begging and stealing, until they were restrained by proper laws.