gouge

Definitions  ·  Examples  ·  Pronunciations  ·  Etymologies  ·  Related  ·  Statistics  ·  Comments  · 
The handle of the gouge is then swung well to the back of the lathe or to the operator's right.

View all »
Definitions (27)

Toggle American Heritage definitions American Heritage Dictionary (9)

  1. noun A chisel with a rounded, troughlike blade.
  2. noun A scooping or digging action, as with such a chisel.
  3. noun A groove or hole scooped with or as if with such a chisel.

Toggle Century definitions Century Dictionary (10)

Toggle GNU Webster definitions GNU Webster's 1913 (2)

Toggle WordNet definitions WordNet (6)

Toggle elsewhere links Elsewhere on the web

View all »
Examples

 

Tags

gouge hasn't been tagged yet.

Sign up or sign in to add tags.

Stats

Gouge has been looked up 235 times, favorited 0 times, listed 18 times, and commented on 0 times.

On Twitter

Photos from

flickr images

Add a related word »
Related

Roget's II Roget's II: The New Thesaurus

Allen's Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms

Used in the same context Used in the Same Context

Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary. Copyright © 2003, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Etymologies (3)

Toggle American Heritage etymologies American Heritage Dictionary (1)

  1. Middle English, from Old French, from Late Latin gubia, variant of gulbia, of Celtic origin.

Toggle Century etymologies Century Dictionary (2)

  1. Formerly also googe; from Middle English gowge, from Old French gouge, a gouge, = Provencal gubio = Spanish gubia = Portuguese goiva = Italian gorbia, from Middle Latin guvia, gubia, also written gulvia, gulbia, a kind of chisel. Origin unknown; perhaps (?) from Basque gubia, a bowl.
  2. from gouge, n.
 

Pronunciations
Record your own »

/gaʊdʒ/
by American Heritage

Charts

frequency chart

Bubble size: how much this word was used in a year

Bubble height: used more or less than expected, vs. all uses evenly distributed

You can expect to see this word several times a year.

Recent Lookups

hubris · hay-loft · Mayflies · mock-up · Added

Recent Favorites

Espoo · gams · TelePalmter · Espoo · stick-to-it-iveness

Recent Pronunciations

milosrdenstvi · lichen-covered · futon · sagacity · monoragngocious