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noun

Gouge 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.

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

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

(Mining) Soft material lying between the wall of a vein and the solid vein.

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

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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... they were tangled up in a heap on the floor, and a terrific struggle began between them, the sailor trying to put his wooden leg through the accordeon, and the Dutchmen industriously striving to gouge Tim's glass eye out. ...

— Jack Wright and His Electric Stage; - or, Leagued Against the James Boys • "Noname"

... no swindle can deceive you. I spend my life in getting facts. I now have seen enough to know that capitalism is not a swindle. If all hands labored hard and honestly the system would enrich us all. Some workers are dishonest and they gouge the employers. Some employers are dishonest and they gouge the workers. But whether employer or employee does the robbing, the public is the one that's robbed. And they are both members of the public. ...

— The Iron Puddler • James J. Davis

... and George Washington, and Daniel Webster used to do, when they was boys? Couldn't 'cause he had ye down? That's a purty story to tell me. It does beat all that you can't learn how Socrates and William Penn used to gouge when they was under, after the hours and hours I've spent in telling you about those great men! It seems to me sometimes as if I should have to give you up in despair. It's an awful trial to me to have a boy that ...

— The Universal Reciter - 81 Choice Pieces of Rare Poetical Gems • Various

... horse in Job swallows the ground in a figure of speech; the Capricorn's grub literally eats its way. ("Chafing and raging, he swalloweth the ground, neither doth he make account when the noise of the trumpet soundeth."—Job 39, 23 (Douai version).—Translator's Note.) With its carpenter's gouge, a strong black mandible, short, devoid of notches, scooped into a sharp-edged spoon, it digs the opening of its tunnel. The piece cut out is a mouthful which, as it enters the stomach, yields its scanty juices and accumulates behind the worker in heaps of wormed ...

— The Wonders of Instinct • J. H. Fabre

... When all this is completed the bill will please you: it will appear in its original colours. Probably your own abilities will suggest a cleverer mode of operating than the one here described. A small gouge would assist the penknife and render ...

— Wanderings In South America • Charles Waterton

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