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 and 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.
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Gouge (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gouged (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Gouging (?).]
1.
To scoop out with a gouge.
2.
To scoop out, as an eye, with the thumb nail; to force out the eye of (a person) with the thumb. [K S.]
⇒ A barbarity mentioned by some travelers as formerly practiced in the brutal frays of desperadoes in some parts of the United States.
3.
To cheat in a bargain; to chouse. [Slang, U. S.]
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