- 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.
- 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.
- to engage in extortion, overcharging, or swindling: I bought a lot of my clothes there before they began gouging.
- to scoop or force (something) out of its position, esp with the fingers or a pointed instrument
- to cut (a hole or groove) in (something) with a sharp instrument or tool
- to extort from
- to dig for (opal)
- a type of chisel with a blade that has a concavo-convex section
- a mark or groove made with, or as if with, a gouge
- a fine deposit of rock fragments, esp clay, occurring between the walls of a fault or mineral vein
- extortion; swindling
