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What (who) is gouge - definition
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Gouging; Gouge (tool); Gouge (disambiguation)
gouge
(gouges, gouging, gouged)
If you gouge something, you make a hole or a long cut in it, usually with a pointed object.
He gouged her cheek with a screwdriver.
VERB: V n prep
gouge
[ga?d?, gu:d?]
¦ verb
1. make (a rough hole or indentation) in a surface.
2. (gouge something out) cut or force something out roughly or violently.
3. N. Amer. informal overcharge or swindle (someone).
¦ noun
1. a chisel with a concave blade.
2. an indentation or groove made by gouging.
Derivatives
gouger noun
Origin
ME: from OFr., from late L. gubia, gulbia, perh. of Celtic origin; cf. Old Ir. gulba 'beak' and Welsh gylf 'beak, pointed instrument'.
Gouge
·noun Soft material lying between the wall of a vein aud the solid vein.
II. Gouge ·noun Imposition; cheat; fraud; also, an impostor; a cheat; a trickish person.
III. Gouge ·noun A bookbinder's tool for blind tooling or gilding, having a face which forms a curve.
IV. Gouge ·noun An incising tool which cuts forms or blanks for gloves, envelopes, ·etc. from leather, paper, ·etc.
V. Gouge ·noun The act of scooping out with a gouge, or as with a gouge; a groove or cavity scooped out, as with a gouge.
VI. Gouge ·noun A chisel, with a hollow or semicylindrical blade, for scooping or cutting holes, channels, or grooves, in wood, stone, ·etc.; a similar instrument, with curved edge, for turning wood.
Wikipedia
Gouge
Gouge may refer to:
- Gouge (chisel), a form of chisel or adze, a woodworking tool
- Gouge (grape), another name for the European wine grape Gouais blanc
- Gouge noir, another name for the French wine grape Gouget noir
- Eye-gouging (rugby union), an offence in rugby union
- Eye-gouging, the act of pressing or tearing the eye
- Fault gouge, an unconsolidated rock type
- Shale Gouge Ratio, a mathematical algorithm to predict fault rock types
- Seabed gouging by ice, such as an iceberg or sea ice ridge
- Gouging (fighting style), an antiquated form of combat in the back-country United States
- Fish-hooking, gouging as part of self-defence or martial arts
- Price gouging, a legal term
- As a surname
- Herbert Dillon Gouge (1843–1917), public servant in South Australia
- Thomas Gouge (1609–1681), English Presbyterian clergyman
- William Gouge (1575–1653), English clergyman and author
Examples of use of gouge
1. The serpentine is visible in the gouge –– floating like "raisins in raisin pudding," Hickman said.
2. The gouge is too small to be catastrophic, unlike the damage Columbia suffered.
3. Mission managers expect to decide by Wednesday whether astronauts should go out and patch the gouge.
4. The gouge is an estimated 3 inches long and just over 2 inches wide.
5. They lunge at each other and gouge, sometimes fighting to the death.