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The act of scooping out with a gouge, or as with a gouge; a groove or cavity scooped out, as with a gouge.

See Plum Gouger.

A sharp-edged, tubular, marine shell, of the genus Vermetus; also, the pinna. See Vermetus.

To cut, pare, gouge, or engrave with a chisel; as, to chisel a block of marble into a statue.

as, the nose of a bellows; the nose of a teakettle. Nose bit (Carp.), a bit similar to a gouge bit, but having a cutting edge on one side of its boring end. -- Nose hammer (Mach.), a frontal hammer. -- Nose hole (Glass Making), a small opening in a furnace, before which a globe of crown glass is held and kept soft a…

he person possessing it. Plum bird, Plum budder (Zoöl.), the European bullfinch. -- Plum gouger (Zoöl.), a weevil, or curculio (Coccotorus scutellaris), which destroys plums. It makes round holes in the pulp, for the reception of its eggs. The larva bores into the stone and eats the kernel. -- Plum weevil (Zoöl.), an…

To scoop out with a gouge or other tool; to furrow. To rout out

A layer of clay or decomposed rock along the wall of a vein. See Gouge, n., 4. Raymond.

which papers may be put, in order to convey messages. -- Shell bit, a tool shaped like a gouge, used with a brace in boring wood. See Bit, n., 3. -- Shell button. (a) A button made of shell. (b) A hollow button made of two pieces, as of metal, one for the front and the other for the back, -- often covered with cloth,…