Crossword-Solution: GOUGE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Gouge | n. | 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. |
| Gouge | n. | A bookbinder's tool for blind tooling or gilding, having a face which forms a curve. |
| Gouge | n. | An incising tool which cuts forms or blanks for gloves, envelopes, etc. from leather, paper, etc. |
| Gouge | n. | Soft material lying between the wall of a vein aud the solid vein. |
| Gouge | n. | The act of scooping out with a gouge, or as with a gouge; a groove or cavity scooped out, as with a gouge. |
| Gouge | n. | Imposition; cheat; fraud; also, an impostor; a cheat; a trickish person. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AERET
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greedy person
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Sentences with GOUGE (5)
These tools consisted of ten in all--a skeleton key, two pick-locks, a centre-bit, gimlet, gouge, chisel, vice jemmy and knife; a portable ladder, a revolver and life preserver completed his equipment.
She thought that all little girls were bloodless and dirty, and all little boys were filthy and had black purple marks where their fathers had tried to gouge out their eyes.
They might gouge and rend in a fight--which was no more than natural; but he felt, somehow, that they would gouge and rend according to rule.
Now that she’s dead, I see her in Hindley: Hindley has exactly her eyes, if you had not tried to gouge them out, and made them black and red; and her—’ “‘Get up, wretched idiot, before I stamp you to death!’ he cried, making a movement that caused me to make one also.
With the squid-stick, bluntly sharp at both ends, perhaps a foot long, and held crosswise in the hand, the trick was to gouge any lazying squid until he closed his tentacles around fist, stick and arm.—Then you had him, and came to the surface with him, and hit him in the head which is in the centre of him, and peeled him off into the waiting canoe.
Quotes with GOUGE (3)
Dearest creature in creation, Study English pronunciation. I will teach you in my verse Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse. I will keep you, Suzy, busy, Make your head with heat grow dizzy. Tear in eye, your dress will tear. So shall I! Oh hear my prayer. Just compare heart, beard, and heard, Dies and diet, lord and word, Sword and sward, retain and Britain.(Mind the latter, how it’s written.) Now I surely will not plague you With such words as plaque and ague. But b…
The thought of being with Shay Wilder makes me want to gouge my eyes out with a butter knife
If you grew up in a rural area, you have seen how farmhouses come and go, but the dent left by cellars is permanent. There is something unbreakable in that hand-dug foundational gouge into the earth. Books are the cellars of civilization: when cultures crumble away, their books remain out of sheer stupid solidity.
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Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 89 times in crossword archives (1952–2025).