01 n. A chisel, with a hollow or semicylindrical blade, for scooping or cutting holes, channels, or grooves, in wood, stone, etc.; a similar inst…
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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.
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A bookbinder's tool for blind tooling or gilding, having a face which forms a curve.
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An incising tool which cuts forms or blanks for gloves, envelopes, etc. from leather, paper, etc.
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Soft material lying between the wall of a vein and the solid vein.(Mining)
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The act of scooping out with a gouge, or as with a gouge; a groove or cavity scooped out, as with a gouge.
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Imposition; cheat; fraud; also, an impostor; a cheat; a trickish person.[Slang, U. S.]
Phrases & compounds
Gouge bit —
a boring bit, shaped like a gouge.