| Gouge (gouge) |
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| n. | (?) |
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| Gouge |
| [F. gouge. LL.
gubia, guvia, gulbia, gulvia,
gulvium; cf. Bisc. gubia bow, gubioa
throat.]
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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.
A bookbinder's tool for blind tooling or
gilding, having a face which forms a curve.
An incising tool which cuts forms or
blanks for gloves, envelopes, etc. from leather, paper, etc.
Soft material lying
between the wall of a vein and the solid vein.
The act of scooping out with a gouge, or
as with a gouge; a groove or cavity scooped out, as with a
gouge.
Imposition; cheat; fraud; also, an
impostor; a cheat; a trickish person.
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| Gouge (gouge) |
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| v. t. | (?) |
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| Gouge |
| [imp. *** p.
p. Gouged (?)] p. pr. *** vb. n.
Gouging (?).] |
To scoop out with a
gouge.
To scoop out, as an eye, with the thumb
nail] to force out the eye of (a person) with the thumb.
To cheat in a bargain; to chouse.
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