Thesaurus: gouge

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1. 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.
2. n. A bookbinder's tool for blind tooling or gilding, having a face which forms a curve.
3. n. An incising tool which cuts forms or blanks for gloves, envelopes, etc. from leather, paper, etc.
4. n. Soft material lying between the wall of a vein aud the solid vein.
5. n. The act of scooping out with a gouge, or as with a gouge; a groove or cavity scooped out, as with a gouge.
6. n. Imposition; cheat; fraud; also, an impostor; a cheat; a trickish person.
7. n. an impression in a surface (as made by a blow)
8. n. and edge tool with a blade like a trough for cutting channels or grooves
9. n. the act of gouging
10. v. force with the thumb
11. v. obtain by coercion or intimidation
12. v. make a groove in