单词 | gouging |
释义 | gougingn. The action of gouge v.; esp. the action of thrusting out the eye of (a person); an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > maiming or mutilation > [noun] > putting out eyes excecation1613 gouging1774 abacination1866 society > occupation and work > industry > mining > [noun] > other specific types of mining shoading1778 nuggeting1852 placer mining1852 reefing1859 hydraulic mining1873 stripping1874 drift mining1877 gouging1877 hydraulicking1880 open-working1881 strip mining1935 horizon mining1947 roadheading1969 society > occupation and work > industry > mining > [noun] > for other specific substance gemming1859 gum-digging1871 gouging1902 1774 P. V. Fithian Jrnl. (1900) 104 The Cooper..is likely to lose one of his Eyes by that Diabolical Custom of gouging which is in common practise among those who fight here. 1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 654 It was called gouging, and was nothing more nor less than a man, when boxing, putting out the eye of his antagonist with his thumb. 1857 E. C. Gaskell Life C. Brontë I. ii. 28 There were very frequently ‘up-and-down-fights’..sometimes with the horrid addition of ‘pawsing’ and ‘gouging’. 1863 J. D. Dana Man. Geol. 538 The groovings are (1) long straight, parallel lines..or broad scrapings, ploughings, and gougings of the surface. 1877 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 314 Excepting a little ‘gouging’ done by lessees, the Home Stake [a mine]..has been idle during the year. 1902 Chambers's Jrnl. Mar. 175/1 In the ‘back blocks’ of New South Wales opal is abundant and ‘gouging’—the term given to opal-mining—is the chief pursuit of every man on the western side of the Darling River. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2022). gougingadj. That practises gouging. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > maiming or mutilation > [adjective] > having or putting eyes out eyeless1567 gouging1796 1796 Gazette of U.S. (N.Y.) 10 May Brave Abraham..Dar'd tell them all..That gouging Gunn had challenged him. 1825 J. K. Paulding John Bull in Amer. i. 2 I also fully believed that the people were a bundling, gouging, drinking, spitting impious race. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1774adj.1796 |
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