Gouge

Noun

 * 1) A cut or groove, as left by something sharp.
 * The nail left a deep gouge in the tire.
 * 1) A chisel, with a curved blade, for scooping or cutting holes, channels, or grooves, in wood, stone, etc.
 * 2) * 1823, James Fenimore Cooper, The Pioneers, ch. 8,
 * 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.

Verb

 * 1)  To make a mark or hole by scooping.
 * Japanese and Chinese printers used to gouge characters in wood.
 * 1)  To push, or try to push the eye (of a person) out of its socket.
 * 2) * 1930, Robert E. Howard, Champ of the Forecastle,
 * He tried to clinch and gouge, but another right hook to the jaw sent him down and out.
 * 1)  To charge an unreasonably or unfairly high price.
 * They have no competition, so they tend to gouge their customers.

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Etymology
Noun from gouge:, itself from  gulbia:, from Gaulish (compare Scottish Gaelic gilb:, Welsh gylyf:), from *gulbi 'beak' (compare Old Irish gulba:, Welsh gylf:, Old Breton golb:).

Noun

 * French: gougeure,
 * German: ,


 * Hebrew:
 * Russian: ,


 * Finnish:
 * French:


 * German: Hohlmeißel
 * Russian: полукруглое долото

Verb

 * Finnish: kaivaa ulos, kovertaa
 * French: ,
 * German: ausstechen, bohren


 * Russian: долбить, , выдолбить


 * French:
 * Russian: выбивать глаз, выбить глаз


 * Finnish:
 * French:


 * German:
 * Russian: обдирать, ободрать

Synonyms

 * engrave (1)
 * swindle (3)

Derived terms

 * gouge out
 * price gouging

Related terms

 * gouged
 * gouger

Etymology
gulbia: ( gubia:), of or  origins.

Noun

 * 1) A gouge (1).
 * 2) A tool with a curved blade for cutting leather.
 * 3)  A female servant.
 * 4)  A prostitute.
 * 5) * 1857, Charles Baudelaire, Bribes - Damnation,
 * On peut les comparer encore à cette auberge, / Espoir des affamés, où cognent sur le tard, / Blessés, brisés, jurant, priant qu’on les héberge, / L’écolier, le prélat, la gouge et le soudard.
 * They can also be compared to this inn, / Hope to the starved, where in the night knock, / Injured, broken, cursing, begging to be lodged, / The schoolboy, the prelate, the prostitute and the soldier.