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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 281 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GOUGE (adopted from the Fr. gouge, derived from the See also:Late See also:Lat. gubia or gulbia, in See also:Ducange gulbium, an See also:implement ad hortum excolendum; and also instrumentum ferreum in usu fabrorum; according to the New See also:English See also:Dictionary the word is probably of See also:Celtic ori  See also:gin, gylf, a See also:beak, appearing in Welsh, and gilb, a See also:boring See also:tool, in Cornish), a tool of the See also:chisel type with a curved blade, used for scooping a groove or channel in See also:wood, See also:stone, &c . (see Tool) . A similar See also:instrument is used in See also:surgery for operations involving the excision of portions of See also:bone . " See also:Gouge " is also used as the name of a bookbinder's tool, for impressing a curved See also:line on the See also:leather, and for the line so impressed . In See also:mining, a " gouge " is the layer of soft See also:rock or See also:earth sometimes found in each See also:side of a vein of See also:coal or ore, which the miner can See also:scoop out with his pick, and thus attack the vein more easily from the side . The verb " to gouge " is used in the sense of scooping or forcing out .

End of Article: GOUGE (adopted from the Fr. gouge, derived from the Late Lat. gubia or gulbia, in Ducange gulbium, an implement ad hortum excolendum; and also instrumentum ferreum in usu fabrorum; according to the New English Dictionary the word is probably of Celtic ori
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