Gouge
[gaʊdʒ;guːdʒ] or [ɡaʊdʒ]
Definition
(noun.) the act of gouging.
(noun.) and edge tool with a blade like a trough for cutting channels or grooves.
(verb.) force with the thumb; 'gouge out his eyes'.
Checked by Jocelyn--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
(n.) A bookbinder's tool for blind tooling or gilding, having a face which forms a curve.
(n.) An incising tool which cuts forms or blanks for gloves, envelopes, etc. from leather, paper, etc.
(n.) Soft material lying between the wall of a vein aud the solid vein.
(n.) The act of scooping out with a gouge, or as with a gouge; a groove or cavity scooped out, as with a gouge.
(n.) Imposition; cheat; fraud; also, an impostor; a cheat; a trickish person.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Hollow chisel.[2]. [Colloquial.] Cheat, trick, imposture, imposition, deception, fraud, stratagem, artifice, chouse.[3]. [Colloquial.] Trickster, impostor, rogue, knave, swindler, sharper, cheat, cheater.
Editor: Nolan
Definition
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.
Editor: Randolph
Examples
- The recording stylus is shaped like a little gouge to cut the little grooves in the wax, while the corresponding stylus of the reproducer has a ball-shaped end to travel in the groove. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- These are placed in a lathe and gouged out, forming the pin in the rough. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Eginhard says his eyes were gouged out and his tongue cut off; he seems, however, to have had both eyes and tongue again a year later. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Joe scooped his eyes with his disengaged wrist, as if he were bent on gouging himself, but said not another word. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
Editor: Stu