gouge vs white cane

gouge

noun
  • A bookbinder's tool with a curved face, used for blind tooling or gilding. 

  • Soft material lying between the wall of a vein and the solid vein of ore. 

  • An incising tool that cuts blanks or forms for envelopes, gloves, etc., from leather, paper, or other materials. 

  • An impostor. 

  • Information. 

  • An act of gouging. 

  • A cut or groove, as left by a gouge or something sharp. 

  • A chisel with a curved blade for cutting or scooping channels, grooves, or holes in wood, stone, etc. 

  • A cheat, a fraud; an imposition. 

verb
  • To make a groove, hole, or mark in by scooping with or as if with a gouge. 

  • To cheat or impose upon; in particular, to charge an unfairly or unreasonably high price. 

  • To use a gouge. 

  • To dig or scoop (something) out with or as if with a gouge; in particular, to use a thumb to push or try to push the eye (of a person) out of its socket. 

white cane

noun
  • A white stick carried by a blind or visually impaired person, indicating their disability to others and allowing them to scan the surroundings for obstacles etc. 

How often have the words gouge and white cane occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )