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{{non-gloss|Senses relating to cutting tools.}}

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

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

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

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

(colloquial) An act of gouging.

(slang) A cheat, a fraud; an imposition.

(slang) An impostor.

(mining) Soft material lying between the wall of a vein and the solid vein of ore.

Information.

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

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

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.

To use a gouge.