gauger
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.
Origin of gauger
1- Also especially in technical use, gag·er .
Words Nearby gauger
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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 CollinsHe 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. JoycePottheen; 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. JoyceThe coincidence of Hobbema's marriage and his appointment as gauger of wines and oil was not by chance.
British Dictionary definitions for gauger
gager
/ (ˈɡeɪdʒə) /
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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