gouge

gouge has 12 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 5.

Definitions

• n.. 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.
• n.. A bookbinder's tool for blind tooling or gilding, having a face which forms a curve.
• n.. An incising tool which cuts forms or blanks for gloves, envelopes, etc. from leather, paper, etc.
• n.. Soft material lying between the wall of a vein aud the solid vein.
• n.. The act of scooping out with a gouge, or as with a gouge; a groove or cavity scooped out, as with a gouge.
• n.. Imposition; cheat; fraud; also, an impostor; a cheat; a trickish person.
• n.. the act of gouging
• n.. and edge tool with a blade like a trough for cutting channels or grooves
• n.. an impression in a surface (as made by a blow)
• v.. force with the thumb; "gouge out his eyes"
• v.. make a groove in
• v.. 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"