Usually means: Tools for cutting or scooping.
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We found 12 dictionaries that define the word gouges:

General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. gouges: Merriam-Webster
  2. gouges: Collins English Dictionary
  3. gouges: Vocabulary.com
  4. Gouge's, Gouges, gouges: Wordnik
  5. gouges: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. Gouges, gouges: Wiktionary
  7. gouges: Dictionary.com
  8. gouges: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. gouges: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gouges: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. gouges: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. gouges: Medical dictionary

(Note: See gouge as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Gouge)

noun:  Senses relating to cutting tools.
noun:  A chisel with a curved blade for cutting or scooping channels, grooves, or holes in wood, stone, etc.
noun:  A bookbinder's tool with a curved face, used for blind tooling or gilding.
noun:  An incising tool that cuts blanks or forms for envelopes, gloves, etc., from leather, paper, or other materials.
noun:  A cut or groove, as left by a gouge or something sharp.
noun:  (originally US, colloquial) An act of gouging.
noun:  (slang) A cheat, a fraud; an imposition.
noun:  (slang) An impostor.
noun:  (mining) Soft material lying between the wall of a vein and the solid vein of ore.
noun:  (US, military, slang, uncountable) Information.
verb:  (transitive) To make a groove, hole, or mark in by scooping with or as if with a gouge.
verb:  (transitive) To cheat or impose upon; in particular, to charge an unfairly or unreasonably high price.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) 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.
verb:  (intransitive) To use a gouge.
noun:  A surname.
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