Definizione monolingua

gouge

gouge (third-person singular simple present gouges, present participle gouging, simple past and past participle gouged)

1. (transitive) To make a mark or hole by scooping.

   Japanese and Chinese printers used to gouge characters in wood.

2. (transitive or intransitive) To push, or try to push the eye (of a person) out of its socket.
   • 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.

3. (transitive) To charge an unreasonably or unfairly high price.

   They have no competition, so they tend to gouge their customers.

gouge (plural gouges)

1. A cut or groove, as left by something sharp.

   The nail left a deep gouge in the tire.

2. A chisel, with a curved blade, for scooping or cutting holes, channels, or grooves, in wood, stone, etc.
   • 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.

Definizione dizionario gouge

scavare con la sgorbia

sgorbia

Altri significati:

to push the eye out

charge an unfairly high price

(transitive) To make a mark or hole by scooping.

chisel for scooping

cut or groove

(transitive or intransitive) To push, or try to push the eye (of a person) out of its socket.

make a mark by scooping

(transitive) To charge an unreasonably or unfairly high price.

A chisel, with a curved blade, for scooping or cutting holes, channels, or grooves, in wood, stone, etc.

A cut or groove, as left by something sharp.