gouge

[Gouge]

To gouge can mean to make a hole or dent in something, or to swindle or steal by overcharging. If your local gas station raises prices because a storm is coming, you may say that the station owner is gouging you and that's illegal.

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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.

Noun
the act of gouging

Noun
and edge tool with a blade like a trough for cutting channels or grooves

Noun
an impression in a surface (as made by a blow)

Verb
force with the thumb; "gouge out his eyes"

Verb
make a groove in

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Verb
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"


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.

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

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

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

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

n.
Imposition; cheat; fraud; also, an impostor; a cheat; a trickish person.


Gouge

Gouge , n. [F. gouge. LL. gubia, guvia, gulbia, gulvia, gulvium; cf. Bisc. gubia bow, gubioa throat.] 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. 2. A bookbinder's tool for blind tooling or gilding, having a face which forms a curve. 3. An incising tool which cuts forms or blanks for gloves, envelopes, etc.. from leather, paper, etc. Knight. 4. (Mining) Soft material lying between the wall of a vein aud the solid vein. Raymond. 5. The act of scooping out with a gouge, or as with a gouge; a groove or cavity scooped out, as with a gouge. 6. Imposition; cheat; fraud; also, an impostor; a cheat; a trickish person. [Slang, U. S.] Gouge bit, a boring bit, shaped like a gouge.

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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