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A chisel with a rounded, troughlike blade.
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A scooping or digging action, as with such a chisel.
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A groove or hole scooped with or as if with such a chisel.
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Informal A large amount, as of money, exacted or extorted.
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To cut or scoop out with or as if with a gouge: "He began to gouge a small pattern in the sand with his cane” ( Vladimir Nabokov).
(verb-transitive)
American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.