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Definition of Gauger
1. n. One who gauges; an officer whose business it is to ascertain the contents of casks.
Definition of Gauger
1. Noun. One who gauges ¹
2. Noun. an officer whose business it is to ascertain the contents of casks. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Gauger
1. one that gauges [n -S] - See also: gauges
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gauger
Literary usage of Gauger
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Child's Garden of Verses and Underwoods by Robert Louis Stevenson, Alexander Harvey (1906)
"II A SONG OF THE ROAD THE gauger walked with willing foot, And aye the gauger
played the flute; And what should Master gauger play But Over the Mis and far ..."
2. The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland [1807-1868/69] by Great Britain, George Kettilby Rickards (1816)
"... gauger or Officer and Collector who (hall receive any fuch Certificate of name
of the Owner or Proprietor of fuch Mill or Kiln ; and every Officer to ..."
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