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GOUGE, n. gouj. A round hollow chisel, used to cut holes, channels or grooves in wood or stone.

GOUGE, v.t. gouj. To scoop out with a gouge.

1. To force out the eye of a person with the thumb or finger; a barbarous practice.
1913 Definition
Gouge (gouge)
n.(?)
Gouge
[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. Soft material lying between the wall of a vein and 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.

  7. To scoop out with a gouge.
  8. To scoop out, as an eye, with the thumb nail] to force out the eye of (a person) with the thumb.
    [K S.]

    * A barbarity mentioned by some travelers as formerly practiced in the brutal frays of desperadoes in some parts of the United States.

  9. To cheat in a bargain; to chouse.
    [Slang, U. S.]

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