Meanings
verb
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of gouge
noungouging (countable and uncountable, plural gougings)
plural gougings
- countableuncountableThe act of one who gouges.
He remembered calling out: "Let up, now—no fair gouging!" and then he crawled from under the lion…
1907, O. Henry, The Princess and the Puma, pages 266–275 - countableA mark produced by gouging.
The damage consists in general of more or less deep cuts or gougings on the flesh side of the hide, often penetrating through the hide to the grain side.
1943, Bulletin of the Imperial Institute, volumes 41-42, page 230
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