Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who gages; specifically, an officer whose business is to ascertain the contents of casks and other hollow vessels.
- noun An exciseman.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A measurer. See
gauger .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
measurer .
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Examples
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I know of some immortal poems that were written by a druggist's clerk, and some by a gager of liquid barrels, but none by a cable-car conductor.
The Journal of Arthur Stirling : the Valley of the Shadow Upton Sinclair 1923
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Or you might have married a gager and gone to Dublin and mixed with the grand quality.
The Wind Bloweth Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne 1908
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Ellangowan; that young man is the very lad-bairn that Dirk Hatteraick carried off from Warroch wood the day that he murdered the gager.
The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III Various 1885
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Ridicules_ (1659), Cathos cries, 'Je m'en vais gager qu'ils n'ont jamais vu la carte de Tendre, et que Billets-Doux, Petits-Soins,
The Works of Aphra Behn Volume IV. Aphra Behn 1664
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Je suis prêt à gager ma maison qu'on observerait le même phénomène, mais inversé, chez les
Antagoniste.net 2008
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