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gouge

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Noun

  1. Senses relating to cutting tools: A chisel with a curved blade for cutting or scooping channels, grooves, or holes in wood, stone, etc.
  2. Senses relating to cutting tools: A bookbinder's tool with a curved face, used for blind tooling or gilding.
  3. Senses relating to cutting tools: An incising tool that cuts blanks or forms for envelopes, gloves, etc., from leather, paper, or other materials.
  4. A cut or groove, as left by a gouge or something sharp.
  5. An act of gouging.
  6. A cheat, a fraud; an imposition.
  7. An impostor.
  8. Soft material lying between the wall of a vein and the solid vein of ore.
  9. Information.

Verb

  1. To make a groove, hole, or mark in by scooping with or as if with a gouge.
  2. To cheat or impose upon; in particular, to charge an unfairly or unreasonably high price.
  3. To dig or scoop (something) out with or as if with a gouge; in particular, to use a thumb to push or try to push the eye (of a person) out of its socket.
  4. To use a gouge.

Proper noun

  1. A surname.

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