gauger

[ gey-jer ]

noun

1. a person or thing that gauges.
2. a worker or inspector who checks the dimensions or quality of machined work.
3. a customs official, collector of excise taxes, or the like.

gauger

/ ˈɡeɪdʒə /

noun

1. a person or thing that gauges
2. a customs officer who inspects bulk merchandise, esp liquor casks, for excise duty purposes
3. a collector of excise taxes

Word History and Origins

Origin of gauger¹

First recorded in 1400–50; late Middle English word from Anglo-French word gaugeour. See gauge, -or ²

Example Sentences

Another day the poet and a brother gauger entered a widow's house at Dunscore and seized a quantity of smuggled tobacco.

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Says I to the gauger, who was the principal talker in the room: 'How about those men that Mr. Smith paid off?

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He had still two good miles before him, and he sat down to rest, when who should walk up but the new gauger.

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Pottheen; illicit whiskey: always distilled in some remote lonely place, as far away as possible from the nose of a gauger.

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The coincidence of Hobbema's marriage and his appointment as gauger of wines and oil was not by chance.

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