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gouge¹
- /ˈɡaʊ̯d͡ʒ/ Canadian, US, UK
- [ˈɡaʊ̯d͡ʒ] Canadian, US, UK
- /ˈɡæʊ̯d͡ʒ/
- [ˈɡæʊ̯d͡ʒ]
- /ˈɡaːd͡ʒ/
- [ˈɡaːd͡ʒ]
Rhymes with -aʊdʒ
Where it comes from
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.
noun gouges
- A chisel with a curved blade for cutting or scooping channels, grooves, or holes in wood, stone, etc. 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.
- A bookbinder's tool with a curved face, used for blind tooling or gilding. 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.
- An incising tool that cuts blanks or forms for envelopes, gloves, etc., from leather, paper, or other materials. 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.
- A cut or groove, as left by a gouge or something sharp. The nail left a deep gouge in the tire.
- An act of gouging.
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A cheat, a fraud; an imposition.
Similar: swindle
- An impostor.
- Soft material lying between the wall of a vein and the solid vein of ore. 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 pow
- Information. 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.
verb gouges · gouging · gouged
- To make a groove, hole, or mark in by scooping with or as if with a gouge. Japanese and Chinese printers used to gouge characters in wood.
- To cheat or impose upon; in particular, to charge an unfairly or unreasonably high price. The company has no competition, so it tends to gouge its customers.
- 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. 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.
- To use a gouge. 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
Gouge²
proper noun Gouges
- A surname.
Translations
Every language
noun chisel with a curved blade
| Español | gubia |
|---|---|
| 日本語 | 丸鑿 marunomi |
| हिन्दी | रुखानी rukhānī |
| Português | goiva |
| Français | gouge |
| Deutsch | Grabstichel, Hohlbeitel, Hohlmeißel, Stichel |
| Italiano | sgorbia |
| Русский | полукруглое долото polukrugloje doloto |
noun cut or groove
| Español | ranura, surco |
|---|---|
| Português | ranhura |
| Français | gougeure, rainure |
| Deutsch | Furche, Rille |
| Русский | жёлоб žólob, вы́емка výjemka |
| עברית | חתך kharíts |
noun (mining) soft material lying between the wall of a vein and the solid vein
| Español | harina |
|---|
verb to make a groove, hole, or mark in by scooping
| Français | gouger, graver |
|---|---|
| Deutsch | ausstechen, bohren, einschlagen |
| Русский | долби́ть dolbítʹ, продолби́ть prodolbítʹ, выда́лбливать vydálblivatʹ, вы́долбить výdolbitʹ, выбива́ть vybivátʹ, вы́бить výbitʹ |
verb to charge an unfairly or unreasonably high price
| Deutsch | abzocken, schröpfen |
|---|---|
| Русский | обдира́ть obdirátʹ, ободра́ть obodrátʹ |
verb To dig or scoop (something) out
| 日本語 | 抉 eguru, 刳り貫く kurinuku |
|---|---|
| 中文 | 刔 jué, 穵 wā, 挖 wā |
| Русский | выка́лывать vykályvatʹ, вы́колоть výkolotʹ |
verb to push or try to push the eye out of its socket
| Français | éborgner |
|---|---|
| Italiano | cavare |
| Русский | выбива́ть глаз vybivátʹ glaz, вы́бить глаз výbitʹ glaz |
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