a chisel having a partly cylindrical blade with the bevel on either the concave or the convex side.
an act of gouging.
a groove or hole made by gouging.
an act or instance of extorting or overcharging; a swindle.
the amount of money extorted or overcharged:a gouge of $20 for shipping and delivery.
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),gouged,goug·ing.
to scoop out or turn with or as if with a gouge: to gouge a channel; to gouge holes.
to dig or force out with or as if with a gouge: to gouge out an eye.
to make a gouge in: to gouge one's leg.
to extort from, overcharge, or swindle: drug companies that gouge consumers and the government.
verb (used without object),gouged,goug·ing.
to engage in extortion, overcharging, or swindling: I bought a lot of my clothes there before they began gouging.
Origin of gouge
First recorded in 1300–50; Middle English, from French, from Late Latin gu(l)bia; compare Old Provençal goja, Spanish gubia; perhaps from Celtic; compare Old Irish gulba “sting,” Welsh gylf “beak,” Cornish gilb “borer”
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