Definitions for gouge

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Spelling: [gouj]

IPA: /gaʊdʒ/

Gouge is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 20 anagrams from letters in gouge (eggou).

Definitions for gouge

noun

1. a chisel having a partly cylindrical blade with the bevel on either the concave or the convex side.
2. an act of gouging.
3. a groove or hole made by gouging.
4. an act of extortion; swindle.
5. Geology. a layer of decomposed rocks or minerals found along the walls of a vein. fragments of rock that have accumulated between or along the walls of a fault.

verb (used with object)

1. to scoop out or turn with or as if with a gouge:
2. to dig or force out with or as if with a gouge:
3. to make a gouge in:
4. to extort from, swindle, or overcharge.

verb (used without object)

1. to engage in swindling, overcharging, or the like:

Origin of gouge

1300-50; Middle English French Late Latin gu(l)bia; compare Old Provençal goja, Spanish gubia; perhaps Celtic; compare Old Irish gulba sting, Welsh gylf beak, Cornish gilb borer

Examples for gouge

In cutting, slant the chisel or gouge outwards at an angle of 45, thus /.

At court, Poggio once got into a brawl with a rival official and tried to gouge out his eyes.

gouge out that fellow's eye, the one that's got you by the shoulder, master.

The gouge is a form of chisel, the blade of which is concave, and hence the edge curved.

The spine of the Appalachian Mountains is being obliterated to gouge out the seams of black coal.

You needn't try to gouge me out o' my rights because you're half-a-head taller.

These are some of the ways in which we attempt to gouge nature.

A finisher can always alter the thickness of a gouge with emery paper.

They formed beginnings, as it were, to guide the gouge or chisel.

Fig. 31 is a detail of a kind of gouge work which you must all know very well.