What's the difference between gauger and gouger?

Gauger


Definition:

  • (n.) One who gauges; an officer whose business it is to ascertain the contents of casks.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Similar patterns of mortality were seen, although there was a significant excess of thyroid cancer in those employed as pumper-gaugers.
  • (2) In 1839 he took a job as Gauger of Salt and Coal, a diurnal round so prosaic that it perhaps fed his increasing flirtation with the fantastic.

Gouger


Definition:

  • (n.) See Plum Gouger.

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