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Definition of Gouge

1. Verb. Force with the thumb. "Gouge out his eyes"

2. Noun. An impression in a surface (as made by a blow).

3. Verb. Obtain by coercion or intimidation. "They squeezed money from the owner of the business by threatening him"

4. Noun. And edge tool with a blade like a trough for cutting channels or grooves.

5. Verb. Make a groove in.

6. Noun. The act of gouging.

Definition of Gouge

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. v. t. To scoop out with a gouge.

Definition of Gouge

1. Noun. A cut or groove, as left by something sharp. ¹

2. Noun. A chisel, with a curved blade, for scooping or cutting holes, channels, or grooves, in wood, stone, etc. ¹

3. Verb. (transitive) To make a mark or hole by scooping. ¹

4. Verb. (transitive or intransitive) To push, or try to push the eye (of a person) out of its socket. ¹

5. Verb. (transitive) To charge an unreasonably or unfairly high price. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Gouge

1. to cut or scoop out [v GOUGED, GOUGING, GOUGES]

Medical Definition of Gouge

1. 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. 4. Soft material lying between the wall of a vein aud the solid vein. 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. Gouge bit, a boring bit, shaped like a gouge. Origin: F. Gouge. LL. Gubia, guvia, gulbia, gulvia, gulvium; cf. Bisc. Gubia bow, gubioa throat. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gouge

gotten the axe gotten to gotten up gotter gottest gottlobite gouache gouaches goudas goudeyite

goudron gouernment gouernments gouernour gouernours gouge (current term) gouge out gouged gouger gougere

gougeres gougers gouges gougeshell gouging gougère gougères goujeers goujeres

Literary usage of Gouge

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN, Sidney Lee (1890)
"In accordance with his fathers wish gouge left Cambridge between Lady day and ... gouge for a time took his place without pay, was then elected by the ..."

2. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"1823 They would take the liberty to scratch me like a tiger, and gouge, and dirk me. ... 1830 gouge him I gouge him ! exclaimed a dozen voices. ..."

3. Archives of Maryland by Maryland Historical Society (1891)
"O Lord ! and Suddenly after the Said gouge was heard So to Crye, The Said Dandy did return from the Said Cole kill, and Said that the Said gouge was runaway ..."

4. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"To scoop out or turn with a gouge. In my mere stop'ling, ... To scoop or excavate as if with a gouge ; dig or tear out by or as if by a scooping action : as ..."

5. Exercises in Wood-working: With a Short Treatise on Wood; Written for Manual by Ivin Sickels (1889)
"To shape a molding with gouge and chisel. Lay out the block-as shown in Fig. ... In cutting with the gouge, apply the same directions given for the use of ..."

6. Exercises in Wood-working: With a Short Treatise on Wood; Written for Manual by Ivin Sickels (1889)
"To shape a molding with gouge and chisel. Lay out the block as shown in Fig. ... In cutting with the gouge, apply the same directions given for the use of ..."

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