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GOUGE
gouge
(noun) the act of gouging
gouge
(noun) and edge tool with a blade like a trough for cutting channels or grooves
dent, ding, gouge, nick
(noun) an impression in a surface (as made by a blow)
gouge, force out
(verb) force with the thumb; “gouge out his eyes”
rout, gouge
(verb) make a groove in
extort, squeeze, rack, gouge, wring
(verb) 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”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
gouge (plural gouges)
Senses relating to cutting tools.
A chisel with a curved blade for cutting or scooping channels, grooves, or holes in wood, stone, etc.
A bookbinder's tool with a curved face, used for blind tooling or gilding.
An incising tool that cuts blanks or forms for envelopes, gloves, etc, from leather, paper, or other materials.
A cut or groove, as left by a gouge or something sharp.
(originally, US, colloquial) An act of gouging.
(slang) A cheat, a fraud; an imposition.
Synonym: swindle
(slang) An impostor.
(mining) Soft material lying between the wall of a vein and the solid vein of ore.
Verb
gouge (third-person singular simple present gouges, present participle gouging, simple past and past participle gouged)
(transitive) To make a groove, hole, or mark in by scooping with or as if with a gouge.
Synonyms: engrave, grave, incise
(transitive) To cheat or impose upon; in particular, to charge an unfairly or unreasonably high price.
Synonyms: defraud, swindle
(transitive, intransitive) 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.
(intransitive) To use a gouge.
Proper noun
Gouge (plural Gouges)
A surname.
Statistics
• According to the 2010 United States Census, Gouge is the 11156th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 2837 individuals. Gouge is most common among White (89.57%) individuals.
Source: Wiktionary
Gouge, n. Etym: [F. gouge. LL. gubia, guvia, gulbia, gulvia, gulvium; cf. Bisc. gubia bow, gubioa throat.]
1. 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.
2. A bookbinder's tool for blind tooling or gilding, having a face which forms a curve.
3. An incising tool which cuts forms or blanks for gloves, envelopes, etc.. from leather, paper, etc. Knight.
4. (Mining)
Definition: Soft material lying between the wall of a vein aud the solid vein. Raymond.
5. The act of scooping out with a gouge, or as with a gouge; a groove or cavity scooped out, as with a gouge.
6. Imposition; cheat; fraud; also, an impostor; a cheat; a trickish person. [Slang, U. S.] Gouge bit, a boring bit, shaped like a gouge.
Gouge, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gouged; p. pr. & vb. n. Gouging.]
1. To scoop out with a gouge.
2. To scoop out, as an eye, with the thumb nail; to force out the eye of (a person) with the thumb. [K S.]
Note: A barbarity mentioned by some travelers as formerly practiced in the brutal frays of desperadoes in some parts of the United States.
3. To cheat in a bargain; to chouse. [Slang, U. S.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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