gauger
Americannoun
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a person or thing that gauges.
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a worker or inspector who checks the dimensions or quality of machined work.
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a customs official, collector of excise taxes, or the like.
noun
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a person or thing that gauges
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a customs officer who inspects bulk merchandise, esp liquor casks, for excise duty purposes
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a collector of excise taxes
Etymology
Origin of gauger
First recorded in 1400–50; late Middle English word from Anglo-French word gaugeour. See gauge, -or 2
Example Sentences
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“It’s a good temperature gauger of where we are and where we want to be.”
From Washington Times ● Sep. 19, 2018
“The man who’s supposed to be the arch-spinner and gauger of the public mood, David Cameron, screwed up,” said Fielding.
From BusinessWeek ● Aug. 15, 2011
Was there any danger of that gauger stopping his own pay?
From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 10 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Legal by Robert Green Ingersoll
Whene’er I buckle on my pack And foot it gaily in the track, O pleasant gauger, long since dead, I hear you fluting on ahead.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 14 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
I believe, however, the truth to be, he is a very vulgar criminal,—a gauger, it is said, from Loughrea, and no such prize as the Castle people fancied.
From Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume II. by Charles James Lever
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