Definition of gouge Gouge

/gawˈʤ/ - [gawj] - gouge

We found 24 definitions of gouge from 5 different sources.

What does gouge mean?

Noun Plural: gouges
gouge - the act of gouging
		creating by removal the act of creating by removing something
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)
gouge - an impression in a surface (as made by a blow)
		dent, ding, nick
		blemish, mar, defect a mark or flaw that spoils the appearance of something (especially on a person's body); "a facial blemish"
		dig the act of touching someone suddenly with your finger or elbow; "she gave me a sharp dig in the ribs"
Verb gouges, gouging, gouged
gouge - force with the thumb; "gouge out his eyes"
		force out
		mar, mutilate make imperfect; "nothing marred her beauty"
		gouge out make gouges into a surface; "The woman's spiked heels gouged out the wooden floor"
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"
		extort, squeeze, rack, wring
		fleece, gazump, overcharge, rob, pluck, plume, surcharge, soak, hook shear the wool from; "shear sheep"
		bleed draw blood; "In the old days, doctors routinely bled patients as part of the treatment"
gouge - make a groove in
		rout
		core out, hollow out, hollow remove the interior of; "hollow out a tree trunk"

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gouge (Noun)
A cut or groove, as left by something sharp.
gouge (Noun)
A chisel, with a curved blade, for scooping or cutting holes, channels, or grooves, in wood, stone, etc.
gouge (Noun)
A bookbinder's tool with a curved face, used for blind tooling or gilding.
gouge (Noun)
An incising tool that cuts forms or blanks for gloves, envelopes, etc.. from leather, paper, etc.
gouge (Noun)
Soft material lying between the wall of a vein and the solid vein.
gouge (Noun)
imposition; cheat; fraud.
gouge (Noun)
An impostor; a cheat.
gouge (Verb)
To make a mark or hole by scooping.
gouge (Verb)
To push, or try to push the eye of a person out of its socket.
gouge (Verb)
To charge an unreasonably or unfairly high price.

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.
gouge (n.)
A bookbinder's tool for blind tooling or gilding, having a face which forms a curve.
gouge (n.)
An incising tool which cuts forms or blanks for gloves, envelopes, etc. from leather, paper, etc.
gouge (n.)
Soft material lying between the wall of a vein aud the solid vein.
gouge (n.)
The act of scooping out with a gouge, or as with a gouge; a groove or cavity scooped out, as with a gouge.
gouge (n.)
Imposition; cheat; fraud; also, an impostor; a cheat; a trickish person.

gouge
gowj, or gōōj, n. a chisel, with a hollow blade, for cutting grooves or holes.—v.t. to scoop out, as with a gouge: to force out, as the eye with the thumb. [O. Fr.,—Low L. guvia, a kind of chisel.]

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gouge in sign language