gager

British

/ ˈɡeɪdʒə /

noun

a variant spelling of gauger

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I know of some immortal poems that were written by a druggist's clerk, and some by a gager of liquid barrels, but none by a cable-car conductor.

From The Journal of Arthur Stirling : the Valley of the Shadow by Upton Sinclair

Or you might have married a gager and gone to Dublin and mixed with the grand quality.

From The Wind Bloweth by Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne

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