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n. A chisel with a rounded, troughlike blade.

n. A scooping or digging action, as with such a chisel.

n. A groove or hole scooped with or as if with such a chisel.

n. Informal A large amount, as of money, exacted or extorted.

v. 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).

v. To force out the eye of (a person) with one's thumb.

v. To thrust one's thumb into the eye of.

v. Informal To extort from.

v. Slang To swindle.

n. A cut or groove, as left by something sharp.

n. A chisel, with a curved blade, for scooping or cutting holes, channels, or grooves, in wood, stone, etc.

n. A bookbinder's tool with a curved face, used for blind tooling or gilding.

n. An incising tool that cuts forms or blanks for gloves, envelopes, etc.. from leather, paper, etc.

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

n. imposition; cheat; fraud

n. An impostor; a cheat.

v. To make a mark or hole by scooping.

v. To push, or try to push the eye (of a person) out of its socket.

v. To charge an unreasonably or unfairly high price.

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 and 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.

n. A chisel with a longitudinally curved blade, used to cut holes, channels, or grooves in wood or stone, or for turning wood in a lathe.

n. In bookbinding, a gilders' tool intended to make the segment of a circle.

n. A local name for a shell which gouges or cuts the foot when trodden on; specifically, in the Gulf of Mexico, a shell of the genus Pinna or Vermetus.

n. A stamp for cutting leather or paper.

n. In mining, the band or layer of decomposed country rock or clayey material (flucan) often found on each side of a lode.

n. An effect of gouging; an excavation or a hole made by or as if by scooping out matter.

n. An imposition; a cheat; also, an impostor.

To scoop out or turn with a gouge.

Hence To scoop or excavate as if with a gouge; dig or tear out by or as if by a scooping action: as, to gouge a loaf of bread; to gouge a hole in a garment.

To cheat in a bold or brutal manner; overreach in a bargain.

v. make a groove in

n. the act of gouging

n. an impression in a surface (as made by a blow)

n. and edge tool with a blade like a trough for cutting channels or grooves

v. force with the thumb

v. obtain by coercion or intimidation

"_I immediately declared in favour of "gouge" -- a decision for which Mr. Slumper, to whom victory is even more terrible than defeat, will thank me yet."

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hollow out    core out    hollow    creating by removal    edge tool    mutilate    mar   

gouger    gouged   

price gouging    gouge out   

imposition    cheat    fraud    engrave    swindle   

persistant    roquelaure    ass-kissing    scritch    pinholes    bloody-minded    matchbox    schnitzel    fidget    tag-team