GOUGE

n. v.

9 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


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.

2.
n.

A bookbinder's tool for blind tooling or gilding, having a face which forms a curve.

3.
n.

An incising tool which cuts forms or blanks for gloves, envelopes, etc.. from leather, paper, etc. Knight.

4.
n.

Soft material lying between the wall of a vein aud the solid vein. Raymond.

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.

6.
n.

Imposition; cheat; fraud; also, an impostor; a cheat; a trickish person. [Slang, U. S.] Gouge bit, a boring bit, shaped like a gouge.

7.
v.

To scoop out with a gouge.

8.
v.

To scoop out, as an eye, with the thumb nail; to force out the eye of (a person) with the thumb. [K S.]

9.
v.

To cheat in a bargain; to chouse. [Slang, U. S.]


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