"gouge" Definition

Definitions for the word "gouge" from multiple English dictionaries.

1. n.
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. n.
A bookbinder's tool for blind tooling or gilding, having a face which forms a curve.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. n.
An incising tool which cuts forms or blanks for gloves, envelopes, etc. from leather, paper, etc.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. n.
Soft material lying between the wall of a vein aud the solid vein.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. n.
The act of scooping out with a gouge, or as with a gouge; a groove or cavity scooped out, as with a gouge.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. n.
Imposition; cheat; fraud; also, an impostor; a cheat; a trickish person.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. n.
Chisel with a concave blade. v. (-ging) 1 cut with or as with a gouge. 2 (foll. By out) force out (esp. An eye with the thumb) with or as with a gouge. [latin gubia]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884

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