noun. A snow-plow formerly used on railroads in the western United States.

noun. One who gouges or stabs.

noun. An insect that gouges: applied to numberless insects, designated by some specifying term: as, the plum-gouger.

noun. The bow oar of a flatboat.

noun. A cheat.

noun. See plum gouger.

noun. Someone who gouges.

noun. a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud

noun. an attacker who gouges out the antagonist's eye

"Apart from the horrendous economics of this imagine defining a stock-market seller as a "gouger" for selling shares at the current market price rather than the price for which the stock sold on average last month, I thought that once upon a time we had Constitutional protection against retroactive legislation."

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