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▪ I. gouging, vbl. n.|ˈgaʊdʒɪŋ, ˈguːdʒɪŋ|
[f. gouge v. + -ing1.]
The action of the vb. gouge; esp. the action of thrusting out the eye of (a person); an instance of this.
1796Morse Amer. Geog. I. 654 It was called gouging, and was nothing more nor less than a man, when boxing, putting out the eye of his antagonist with his thumb. 1860Mrs. Gaskell C. Brontë 20 There were very frequently ‘up and down fights’..sometimes with the horrid addition of Pawsing, and Gouging. 1862Dana Man. Geol. 538 The groovings are (1) long straight, parallel lines..or broad scrapings, ploughings, and gougings of the surface. 1877Raymond Statist. Mines & Mining 314 Excepting a little ‘gouging’ done by lessees, the Home Stake [a mine]..has been idle during the year. 1902Chambers's Jrnl. Mar. 175/1 In the ‘back blocks’ of New South Wales opal is abundant and ‘gouging’—the term given to opal-mining—is the chief pursuit of every man on the western side of the Darling River.
attrib.1881J. Hooker in Nature No. 619. 444 Ramsay..explained the formation of so many lake beds in mountain regions by the gouging action of glaciers. 1884Knight Dict. Mech. IV, Gouging Forceps,..a bone-gnawing forceps. 1897Geog. Jrnl. IX. 300 This is due to the gouging and tossing action of the eddies [of a sand-shower]. 1971J. S. Gunn Opal Terminol. 21 Gouging-pick, short-handled pick, chisel nosed at both ends of the head, which can be used in a confined space.
▪ II. gouging, ppl. a.
[f. gouge v. + -ing2.]
That practises gouging.
1796Gazette of U.S. (N.Y.) 10 May (Th.), Brave Abraham..Dar'd tell them all..That gouging Gunn had challenged him. 1825J. K. Paulding J. Bull in Amer. i. 2, I also fully believed that the people were a bundling, gouging, drinking, spitting impious race. |