Chisel vs. Gouge — What's the Difference?

A chisel is a tool with a characteristically shaped cutting edge (such that wood chisels have lent part of their name to a particular grind) of blade on its end, for carving or cutting a hard material such as wood, stone, or metal by hand, struck with a mallet, or mechanical power. The handle and blade of some types of chisel are made of metal or of wood with a sharp edge in it.

A chisel with a blade that has a rounded, angled, or troughlike indentation along its length.

A metal tool with a sharp beveled edge, used to cut and shape stone, wood, or metal.

A scooping or digging action, as with such a chisel.

To shape or cut with a chisel.

A groove or hole scooped with or as if with such a chisel.

To cheat or swindle.

(Informal) A large amount, as of money, exacted or extorted.

To obtain by deception.

To cut or scoop out with or as if with a gouge

To use a chisel.

To force out the eye of (a person) with one's thumb.

To use unethical methods; cheat

To thrust one's thumb into the eye of.

To intrude oneself without welcome

(Informal) To extort from.

A cutting tool used to remove parts of stone, wood or metal by pushing or pounding the back when the sharp edge is against the material. It consists of a slim, oblong block of metal with a sharp wedge or bevel formed on one end and sometimes a handle at the other end.

(Slang) To swindle.

Gravel.

Senses relating to cutting tools.

Coarse flour; bran; the coarser part of bran or flour.

A chisel with a curved blade for cutting or scooping channels, grooves, or holes in wood, stone, etc.

(intransitive) To use a chisel.

A bookbinder's tool with a curved face, used for blind tooling or gilding.

(transitive) To work something with a chisel.

An incising tool that cuts blanks or forms for envelopes, gloves, etc., from leather, paper, or other materials.

To cheat, to get something from (someone) by cheating.

A cut or groove, as left by a gouge or something sharp.

A tool with a cutting edge on one end of a metal blade, used in dressing, shaping, or working in timber, stone, metal, etc.; - usually driven by a mallet or hammer.

An act of gouging.

To cut, pare, gouge, or engrave with a chisel; as, to chisel a block of marble into a statue.

(slang) A cheat, a fraud; an imposition.

To cut close, as in a bargain; to cheat.

(slang) An impostor.

An edge tool with a flat steel blade with a cutting edge

(mining) Soft material lying between the wall of a vein and the solid vein of ore.

Engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud;

Information.

Deprive somebody of something by deceit;

(transitive) To make a groove, hole, or mark in by scooping with or as if with a gouge.

Carve with a chisel;

(transitive) To cheat or impose upon; in particular, to charge an unfairly or unreasonably high price.

To dig or scoop (something) out with or as if with a gouge; in particular, to use a thumb to push or try to push the eye (of a person) out of its socket.

(intransitive) To use a gouge.

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.

A bookbinder's tool for blind tooling or gilding, having a face which forms a curve.

An incising tool which cuts forms or blanks for gloves, envelopes, etc. from leather, paper, etc.

Soft material lying between the wall of a vein and the solid vein.

The act of scooping out with a gouge, or as with a gouge; a groove or cavity scooped out, as with a gouge.

Imposition; cheat; fraud; also, an impostor; a cheat; a trickish person.

An impression in a surface (as made by a blow)

And edge tool with a blade like a trough for cutting channels or grooves

The act of gouging

Force with the thumb;

Obtain by coercion or intimidation;

Make a groove in