I should have guessed what it would be, when I saw the gouge marks in the bottom of the document case.

Dr. Lauber said investigators would also test for flaws in three sections of track that were removed from the place where the gouge marks began.

He knelt down and examined the gouge mark in the floor caused by John Fiske's swing with a tire iron.

He looked up at the gouge marks, then at Stovic.

Angie traced a gouge mark in the tabletop with one bitten fingernail.

Its jamb showed gouge marks and ragged splinters.

There were gouge marks where a tool had been inserted between jamb and door and used to pry the door open.

The walls were dirty white plaster with gouge marks from where they'd been knocked by furniture.

Captive pygmy slow lorises also make characteristic gouge marks in wooden substrates, such as branches.

But still there were scuffs and scrapes down the long, steel sides, and even a few deep gouge marks.