gauger

[ gey-jer ]

/ ˈgeɪ dʒər /

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noun

a person or thing that gauges.

a worker or inspector who checks the dimensions or quality of machined work.

a customs official, collector of excise taxes, or the like.

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Also especially in technical use, gag·er .

Origin of gauger

First recorded in 1400–50; late Middle English word from Anglo-French word gaugeour.See gauge, -or²

Words nearby gauger

gauffer, gauffering, Gaugamela, gauge, gauge boson, gauger, gauge theory, Gauguin, Gauguin, Paul, Gauhati, Gaul

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How to use gauger in a sentence

Another day the poet and a brother gauger entered a widow's house at Dunscore and seized a quantity of smuggled tobacco.
Robert Burns|Principal Shairp.
Says I to the gauger, who was the principal talker in the room: 'How about those men that Mr. Smith paid off?
The Queen of Hearts|Wilkie Collins
He had still two good miles before him, and he sat down to rest, when who should walk up but the new gauger.
English As We Speak It in Ireland|P. W. Joyce
Pottheen; illicit whiskey: always distilled in some remote lonely place, as far away as possible from the nose of a gauger.
English As We Speak It in Ireland|P. W. Joyce

The coincidence of Hobbema's marriage and his appointment as gauger of wines and oil was not by chance.
A Popular Handbook to the National Gallery, Volume I, Foreign Schools|Various

British Dictionary definitions for gauger

gauger

gager

/ (ˈɡeɪdʒə) /

noun

a person or thing that gauges

mainly British a customs officer who inspects bulk merchandise, esp liquor casks, for excise duty purposes

a collector of excise taxes

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