gouge
noun/ɡaʊdʒ/
/ɡaʊdʒ/
- a sharp tool for making hollow areas in wood
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- a deep, narrow hole or cut in a surface
- The massive wheels were digging great gouges in the road’s surface.
Word Originlate Middle English: from Old French, from late Latin gubia, gulbia, perhaps of Celtic origin; compare with Old Irish gulba ‘beak’ and Welsh gylf ‘beak, pointed instrument’.
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