·noun Soft material lying between the wall of a vein aud the solid vein.
II. Gouge ·noun Imposition; cheat; fraud; also, an impostor; a cheat; a trickish person.
III. Gouge ·noun A bookbinder's tool for blind tooling or gilding, having a face which forms a curve.
IV. Gouge ·noun An incising tool which cuts forms or blanks for gloves, envelopes, ·etc. from leather, paper, ·etc.
V. Gouge ·noun The act of scooping out with a gouge, or as with a gouge; a groove or cavity scooped out, as with a gouge.
VI. Gouge ·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.