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
In January, 1839, he became a weigher and gauger in the Boston Custom House, a position which he lost in April, 1841, owing to a change in the political administration.
From The Short-story by William Patterson Atkinson
Into this mix-up of bending and hurrying folk came the voice of Gilchrist the gauger.
From The McBrides A Romance of Arran by John Sillars
He is said to have had many fights with smugglers, but did not suffer the fate of the gauger in Guy Mannering, for Dirck Hatteraicks were not so common as youthful readers might desire.
From Springtime and Other Essays by Sir Francis Darwin
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