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gauger

/gey-jer/US // ˈgeɪ dʒər //UK // (ˈɡeɪdʒə) //

测量仪,计量器,测量器,计量表

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : 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.

Examples

  • Another day the poet and a brother gauger entered a widow's house at Dunscore and seized a quantity of smuggled tobacco.

  • Says I to the gauger, who was the principal talker in the room: 'How about those men that Mr. Smith paid off?

  • He had still two good miles before him, and he sat down to rest, when who should walk up but the new gauger.

  • Pottheen; illicit whiskey: always distilled in some remote lonely place, as far away as possible from the nose of a gauger.

  • The coincidence of Hobbema's marriage and his appointment as gauger of wines and oil was not by chance.