Gouge

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1. Noun

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. Noun

A bookbinder's tool for blind tooling or gilding, having a face which forms a curve.

3. Noun

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

4. Noun

Soft material lying between the wall of a vein aud the solid vein.

5. Noun

The act of scooping out with a gouge, or as with a gouge; a groove or cavity scooped out, as with a gouge.

6. Noun

Imposition; cheat; fraud; also, an impostor; a cheat; a trickish person.

7. Noun

an impression in a surface (as made by a blow)
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