gouging
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]gouging
- present participle and gerund of gouge
Noun
[edit]gouging (countable and uncountable, plural gougings)
- The act of one who gouges.
- 1907, O. Henry, The Princess and the Puma, pages 266–275:
- He remembered calling out: "Let up, now—no fair gouging!" and then he crawled from under the lion…
- (countable) A mark produced by gouging.
- 1943, Bulletin of the Imperial Institute, volumes 41-42, page 230:
- 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.