Also, the explosives had dug big gouges in the earth.

The gouges of wheels and feet were at the roadside.

Why, they tell me he has started in business for himself, and with what he can gouge from the just wages of his employees he pays pew rent and gives to the heathen.

This poor wretch was scourged, had his limbs broken, his nose and hands cut off, and his eyes gouged out of their sockets.