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gauger
[ gey-jer ]
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.
gauger
/ ˈɡeɪdʒə /
noun
- a person or thing that gauges
- a customs officer who inspects bulk merchandise, esp liquor casks, for excise duty purposes
- a collector of excise taxes
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Another day the poet and a brother gauger entered a widow's house at Dunscore and seized a quantity of smuggled tobacco.
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Says I to the gauger, who was the principal talker in the room: 'How about those men that Mr. Smith paid off?
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He had still two good miles before him, and he sat down to rest, when who should walk up but the new gauger.
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Pottheen; illicit whiskey: always distilled in some remote lonely place, as far away as possible from the nose of a gauger.
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The coincidence of Hobbema's marriage and his appointment as gauger of wines and oil was not by chance.
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