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gouge
a chisel with a rounded blade; a digging or scooping action: to gouge a channel; to gouge holes
Not to be confused with:
gage – a security or a pledge; something, as a glove, thrown down as a challenge to fight: The knight threw down his gage.; a variety of plum, as a greengage
gauge – a measuring device; to test; a size: twelve-gauge shotguns; the fineness of knitted fabric: sixty-gauge stockings
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left to right: hollow, parting, and fluting gouges
gouge
(gouj)n.
1. A chisel with a blade that has a rounded, angled, or troughlike indentation along its length.
2.
a. A scooping or digging action, as with such a chisel.
b. A groove or hole scooped with or as if with such a chisel.
3. Informal A large amount, as of money, exacted or extorted.
tr.v. gouged, goug·ing, goug·es
1. To cut or scoop out with or as if with a gouge: "He began to gouge a small pattern in the sand with his cane" (Vladimir Nabokov).
2.
a. To force out the eye of (a person) with one's thumb.
b. To thrust one's thumb into the eye of.
3. Informal To extort from.
4. Slang To swindle.
[Middle English, from Old French, from Late Latin gubia, variant of gulbia, of Celtic origin.]
goug′er n.
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gouge
(ɡaʊdʒ)vb (mainly tr)
1. (usually foll by out) to scoop or force (something) out of its position, esp with the fingers or a pointed instrument
2. (sometimes foll by out) to cut (a hole or groove) in (something) with a sharp instrument or tool
3. informal US and Canadian to extort from
4. (Mining & Quarrying) (also intr) Austral to dig for (opal)
n
5. (Tools) a type of chisel with a blade that has a concavo-convex section
6. a mark or groove made with, or as if with, a gouge
7. (Geological Science) geology a fine deposit of rock fragments, esp clay, occurring between the walls of a fault or mineral vein
8. informal US and Canadian extortion; swindling
[C15: from French, from Late Latin gulbia a chisel, of Celtic origin]
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gouge
(gaʊdʒ)n., v. gouged, goug•ing. n.
1. a chisel having a partly cylindrical blade with the bevel on either the concave or the convex side.
2. an act of gouging.
3. a hole made by gouging.
4. an act of extortion; swindle.
5.
v.t. a. a layer of decomposed rocks or minerals found along the walls of a vein.
b. fragments of rock that have accumulated between or along the walls of a fault.
6. to scoop out or turn with or as if with a gouge.
7. to dig or force out with or as if with a gouge (often fol. by out).
8. to make a gouge in: to gouge one's leg.
9. to extort from or overcharge.
v.i. 10. to engage in extortion or swindling.
[1300–50; < Middle French < Late Latin gu(l)bia, perhaps < Celtic; compare Old Irish gulba sting, Welsh gylf beak, Cornish gilb borer]
goug′er, n.
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gouge
Past participle: gouged
Gerund: gouging
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| Noun | 1. |  gouge - an impression in a surface (as made by a blow)blemish, mar, defect - a mark or flaw that spoils the appearance of something (especially on a person's body); "a facial blemish" dig - a small gouge (as in the cover of a book); "the book was in good condition except for a dig in the back cover" |
| 2. | gouge - and edge tool with a blade like a trough for cutting channels or grooves edge tool - any cutting tool with a sharp cutting edge (as a chisel or knife or plane or gouge) | |
| 3. | gouge - the act of gouging creating by removal - the act of creating by removing something | |
| Verb | 1. | gouge - force with the thumb; "gouge out his eyes" gouge out - make gouges into a surface; "The woman's spiked heels gouged out the wooden floor" |
| 2. | gouge - 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" fleece, gazump, overcharge, plume, rob, soak, surcharge, hook, pluck - rip off; ask an unreasonable price bleed - get or extort (money or other possessions) from someone; "They bled me dry--I have nothing left!" | |
| 3. | gouge - make a groove in |
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gouge
(gaudʒ) verb1. to make (a groove or hole) with a tool. He gouged (out) a hole in the wood.excavar, escoplear con gubia
2. to take or force out. The tyrant gouged out the prisoner's eyes.arrancar
noun a type of chisel for making grooves etc. gubia
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