From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Gouge \Gouge\, n. [F. gouge. LL. gubia, guvia, gulbia, gulvia,
gulvium; cf. Bisc. gubia bow, gubioa throat.]
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1. A chisel, with a hollow or semicylindrical blade, for
scooping or cutting holes, channels, or grooves, in wood,
stone, etc.; a similar instrument, with curved edge, for
turning wood.
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2. A bookbinder's tool for blind tooling or gilding, having a
face which forms a curve.
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3. An incising tool which cuts forms or blanks for gloves,
envelopes, etc. from leather, paper, etc. --Knight.
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4. (Mining) Soft material lying between the wall of a vein
and the solid vein. --Raymond.
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5. The act of scooping out with a gouge, or as with a gouge;
a groove or cavity scooped out, as with a gouge.
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6. Imposition; cheat; fraud; also, an impostor; a cheat; a
trickish person. [Slang, U. S.]
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{Gouge bit}, a boring bit, shaped like a gouge.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
gouge
n 1: an impression in a surface (as made by a blow) [syn:
{dent}, {ding}, {gouge}, {nick}]
2: and edge tool with a blade like a trough for cutting channels
or grooves
3: the act of gouging
v 1: force with the thumb; "gouge out his eyes" [syn: {gouge},
{force out}]
2: obtain by coercion or intimidation; "They extorted money from
the executive by threatening to reveal his past to the
company boss"; "They squeezed money from the owner of the
business by threatening him" [syn: {extort}, {squeeze},
{rack}, {gouge}, {wring}]
3: make a groove in [syn: {rout}, {gouge}]
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