noun soft material lying between the wall of a vein aud the solid vein.
2. gouge ·noun imposition; cheat; fraud; also, an impostor; a cheat; a trickish person.
3. gouge ·noun a bookbinder's tool for blind tooling or gilding, having a face which forms a curve.
4. gouge ·noun an incising tool which cuts forms or blanks for gloves, envelopes, ·etc. from leather, paper, ·etc.
5. 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.
6. 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.