gouge
Joel S. Berson
Berson at ATT.NET
Fri Jun 9 16:12:49 UTC 2006
I forgot to add the following.
>> Are books like this called "gouges"? I don't know where I dredged up
>>that term.
>
>The ex-navy guys (submariners) that I used to work with used that
>term in relation to on-board tech manuals that had been heavily
>annotated by previous owners/users. The bonus (often highly useful)
>info was called "gouge."
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