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gauger (jər)

noun

  1. a person or thing that gauges
  2. Chiefly Brit. an official who measures the contents of casks of liquor, etc. to be taxed
  3. a collector of excise taxes

Etymology: ME < Anglo-Fr gaugeour < gauge

gauger Quotes

The gauger walked with willing foot, And aye the gauger played the flute; And what should Master Gauger play But Over the hills and far away?

—Stevenson, Robert Louis

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