gouge

Senses relating to cutting tools.; A chisel with a curved blade for cutting or scooping channels, grooves, or holes in wood, stone, etc.countableuncountable

• The "steeple" was a little cupola, reared on the very centre of the roof, on four tall pillars of pine, that were fluted with a gouge, and loaded with mouldings.
• The cutting [of letter blocks] is effected by chisels and gouges of the usual kinds, and is the work of a class of artizans called 'Wood letter Cutters,' or 'Wood-type Cutters.'

Senses relating to cutting tools.; A bookbinder's tool with a curved face, used for blind tooling or gilding.countableuncountable

• In plate II. are design for two backs of books. The first figure, which presents an appearance of exceeding richness, is executed with one sole tool, viz. No. 10, and a small gouge for the sides of the lettering-piece.

Senses relating to cutting tools.; An incising tool that cuts blanks or forms for envelopes, gloves, etc., from leather, paper, or other materials.countableuncountable

• Gouge. […] A shaped incising-tool used for cutting out forms or blanks for gloves, envelopes, or other objects cut to a shape from fabric, leather, or paper.

A cut or groove, as left by a gouge or something sharp.countableuncountable

• The nail left a deep gouge in the tire.

An act of gouging.colloquialcountableuncountable

A cheat, a fraud; an imposition.countableslanguncountable

An impostor.countableslanguncountable

Soft material lying between the wall of a vein and the solid vein of ore.countableuncountable

• At some of the mines on the great Mother Lode, where hundreds of tons are not unfrequently thrown down at a blast, and where a wide, soft "gouge" along one wall enables the minder to keep two or three sides of the rock free, and give the po
• The geologic relations seen at the surface continue underground, but in addition 5 to 10 feet of gouge, dipping 68°E, is found to separate the serpentine from the ore zone. The gouge is not sufficiently resistant to erosion to crop out. […]

Information.USslanguncountable

• As all naval aviators have learned at one time or another in their careers, “There's plenty of bad gouge out there," and it has, does, and will get the unwary fliers in trouble.
• The Marines and “Coasties” (the nickname for Coast Guard students) were reputed to have good gouge on each class's test. Rumor had it that the Marines had inside information on the questions for the next day's FRR test, […]

To make a groove, hole, or mark in by scooping with or as if with a gouge.transitive

• Japanese and Chinese printers used to gouge characters in wood.

To cheat or impose upon; in particular, to charge an unfairly or unreasonably high price.transitive

• The company has no competition, so it tends to gouge its customers.

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.intransitivetransitive

• The recorded cases in which the constituents of the joint were removed at different times, and those also in which the bones or portions of the bones were gouged away, do not by any means afford satisfactory results.
• In milling, a blade with this irregularity in front slope causes the cutter to drag on one side and gouge on the other.

To use a gouge.intransitive

• Blocks are alſo pieces of wood belonging to ſhips, in which the ſhivers, or ſheaves, of pullies are placed, and wherein the running ropes go. [...] The blocks are then jambed up edgeways with wedges in a clave, and the ſheave-holes are made