Middle English Dictionary Entry
gǒuǧe n.
Entry Info
| Forms | gǒuǧe n. |
| Etymology | OF goi & ML goia (earlier gubia); ult. Celtic. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
A chisel with a concave blade, gouge; thixel ~, an adz with a concave blade.
Associated quotations
- (1350-1) Acc.Chester in LCRS 59197 : [2] gouges [of cartspikes].
- (1404) Acc.R.Dur.in Sur.Soc.100396 : Item in custodia Carpentarii..1 thyxtyll goug.
- (1444) in Salzman Building in Engl.348 : [An iron] gouge.
- c1500 The shype ax (Ashm 61)179 : The gowge seyd, 'The devyles dyrte Fore anything that thou canne wyrke!'