gouge
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
government
military
mining
politics
war
Etymology: From Middle English gouge (“chisel with concave blade; gouge”), from Old French gouge, goi (“gouge”), from Late Latin goia, gubia, gulbia (“chisel; piercer”), borrowed from Gaulish *gulbiā, from Proto-Celtic *gulbā, *gulbi, *gulbīnos (“beak, bill”). The English word is cognate with Italian gorbia, gubbia (“ferrule”), Old Breton golb, Old Irish gulba (“beak”), Portuguese goiva, Scottish Gaelic gilb (“chisel”), Spanish gubia (“chisel, gouge”), Welsh gylf (“beak; pointed instrument”), gylyf (“sickle”).
The verb is derived from the noun.
Inflected forms:
form: gouges
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gouges
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: gouging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: gouged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: gouged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Senses relating to cutting tools.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The "steeple" was a little cupola, reared on the very centre of the roof, on four tall pillars of pine, that were fluted with a gouge, and loaded with mouldings.
The cutting [of letter blocks] is effected by chisels and gouges of the usual kinds, and is the work of a class of artizans called 'Wood letter Cutters,' or 'Wood-type Cutters.'
Now hollow out the inside of the boat with a gouge or gouges. ("Firmer" gouges, ground on the outside of the curve, are used. "Paring" gouges are useless.)
The six most common woodturning tools you should know about are: gouge, skew, parting tool, spear-point, round-nose, and flat-nose. The gouge is a hollow, round-nose chisel used to rough-cut blanks into cylinders and for making cove cuts. Gouges can be used for cutting or scraping.
gloss: Senses relating to cutting tools.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: In plate II. are design for two backs of books. The first figure, which presents an appearance of exceeding richness, is executed with one sole tool, viz. No. 10, and a small gouge for the sides of the lettering-piece.
gloss: Senses relating to cutting tools.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Gouge. […] A shaped incising-tool used for cutting out forms or blanks for gloves, envelopes, or other objects cut to a shape from fabric, leather, or paper.
gloss: A cut or groove, as left by a gouge or something sharp.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The nail left a deep gouge in the tire.
The planing-machine, on the contrary, uses revolving knives, which make a succession of little gouges in the wood; these gouges, which would otherwise leave the surface very irregular, are made to leave it tolerably smooth by following one another so closely that the gouges become one long gouge or cut; [...]
He makes himself look at his daughter's changing body the way he might look at a gouge on his own leg, forcing himself to examine every detail until he's not looking at a horror but a fact; something that needs fixing.
He squinted through frozen lashes, trying to make better sense of the valley beneath him, a gouge running east to west, so deep and narrow he could only see the bottom when they passed directly overhead.
gloss: An act of gouging.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
countable
uncountable
gloss: A cheat, a fraud; an imposition.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
gloss: An impostor.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
gloss: Soft material lying between the wall of a vein and the solid vein of ore.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: At some of the mines on the great Mother Lode, where hundreds of tons are not unfrequently thrown down at a blast, and where a wide, soft "gouge" along one wall enables the minder to keep two or three sides of the rock free, and give the powder the greatest opportunity to "lift" without waste of power, the cost of drilling and blasting per ton is so low that a reduction of one-third, even if it could be made, would not greatly affect the general count; […]
The geologic relations seen at the surface continue underground, but in addition 5 to 10 feet of gouge, dipping 68°E, is found to separate the serpentine from the ore zone. The gouge is not sufficiently resistant to erosion to crop out. […] A "bull" quartz vein occurs in places along the contact of the gouge and the ore zone. It does not constitute ore.
gloss: Information.
pos: noun
tags: US
slang
uncountable
examples: As all naval aviators have learned at one time or another in their careers, “There's plenty of bad gouge out there," and it has, does, and will get the unwary fliers in trouble.
The Marines and “Coasties” (the nickname for Coast Guard students) were reputed to have good gouge on each class's test. Rumor had it that the Marines had inside information on the questions for the next day's FRR test, […]
gloss: To make a groove, hole, or mark in by scooping with or as if with a gouge.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Japanese and Chinese printers used to gouge characters in wood.
Imperfect examples of concave shells are to be seen in the salient of El Capitan, which is itself an imperfect dome, not wholly massive throughout, that has been vigorously gouged by the Yosemite Glacier.
Gouges [...] are made of steel that is curved to varying degrees to "gouge" out excess wood.
[W]e simply sit in silence and let the day's events roll around the room like farts in a school cafeteria. Dad breaks the spell when he gets up to retrieve his wood and starts gouging it for all he's worth.
gloss: To cheat or impose upon; in particular, to charge an unfairly or unreasonably high price.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The company has no competition, so it tends to gouge its customers.
[M]any hospitals have essentially abandoned any serious effort to raise funds from donors. They could, like universities, conduct fund-raising campaigns and establish endowments to cover the shortfall caused by widespread fraud (i.e., the false promise by government and insurance to pay patients' medical expenses), but instead they mercilessly gouge their uninsured patients.
Women like Rachel sail through life wrapping men around their little fingers and gouging them for everything they've got.
gloss: To dig or scoop (something) out with or as if with a gouge; in particular, to use a thumb to push or try to push the eye (of a person) out of its socket.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: The recorded cases in which the constituents of the joint were removed at different times, and those also in which the bones or portions of the bones were gouged away, do not by any means afford satisfactory results.
In milling, a blade with this irregularity in front slope causes the cutter to drag on one side and gouge on the other.
He tried to clinch and gouge, but another right hook to the jaw sent him down and out.
For some time, Christian missionaries had been falsely accused of kidnaping Chinese children, gouging out their eyes, and killing them.
gloss: To use a gouge.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Blocks are alſo pieces of wood belonging to ſhips, in which the ſhivers, or ſheaves, of pullies are placed, and wherein the running ropes go. [...] The blocks are then jambed up edgeways with wedges in a clave, and the ſheave-holes are made in this manner: the length and breadth are firſt gouged out, and holes are bored half way through the block, along the part gouged out, with an augre of the ſize of the ſheave-hole; then the ſheave-hole is gouged and bored on the oppoſite ſide in the ſame manner, ſo as to meet the oppoſite holes.
Derived words: fault gouge
gouge bit
antigouging
eye-gougingly
gougee
gouge out
gouger
gouging
price gouging
price gouge
regouge
ungouged
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