Gouge

n.	1.
	1.	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.	A bookbinder's tool for blind tooling or gilding, having a face which forms a curve.
	3.	An incising tool which cuts forms or blanks for gloves, envelopes, etc. from leather, paper, etc.
	4.	(Mining) Soft material lying between the wall of a vein and the solid vein.
	5.	The act of scooping out with a gouge, or as with a gouge; a groove or cavity scooped out, as with a gouge.
	6.	Imposition; cheat; fraud; also, an impostor; a cheat; a trickish person. Gouge bit a boring bit, shaped like a gouge.

Noun	1.	gouge - an impression in a surface (as made by a blow) Synonyms: nick, dent
	2.	gouge - and edge tool with a blade like a trough for cutting channels or grooves
	3.	gouge - the act of gouging
Verb	1.	gouge - force with the thumb; "gouge out his eyes" Synonyms: force out
	2.	gouge - obtain by coercion or intimidation; "They extorted money from the executive by threatening to reveal his past to the company boss"; "They squeezed money from the owner of the business by threatening him" Synonyms: extort, wring, rack, squeeze
	3.	gouge - make a groove in Synonyms: rout

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