Note 441 — TALE OF MOHSIN AND MUSA.[435]
Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2
Supposed to be American, but, despite Bartlett, really old English from Lancashire, the land which has supplied many of the so-called “American” neologisms. A gouge is a hollow chisel, a scoop; and to gouge is to poke out the eye: this is done by thrusting the fingers into the side-hair thus acting as base and by prising out the ball with the thumb-nail which is purposely grown long.