gauger

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gauger - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Gauger \Gau"ger\, n.
     One who gauges; an officer whose business it is to ascertain
     the contents of casks.
     [1913 Webster]

gauger - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

  GAUGER. An officer appointed to examine all tuns, pipes, hogsheads, barrels, 
  and tierces of wine, oil, and other liquids, and to give them a mark of 
  allowance, as containing lawful measure.