gauger

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

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

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

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