(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.
Mauger
Definition:
(prep.) Alt. of Maugre
Example Sentences:
(1) Annie Mauger, chief executive of the Chartered Institute for Library and Information Professionals says: “There are a lot of different groups within a community who would not go into a pub and you have to think about children and people of different faiths, who would find going into a place serving alcohol unacceptable.The kind of space a library occupies is accessible to everybody.
(2) Cases of reflex sympathetic dystrophy syndrome involving the hip (Lequesne and Mauger 1982) and the knee (Doury et al.
(3) "I am delighted," said chief executive Annie Mauger.
(4) This is on top of the £462m we have had to save so far.” Annie Mauger, chief executive of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals, expressed “deep concern”.
(5) In the low [Ca2+]i cells, both the apparent Km and the apparent Vmax of the Ca2+ influx are increased as compared to the controls, indicating that the properties of the channels activated by lowering [Ca2+]i are apparently identical to those initiated by the hormones (Mauger, J.-P., Poggioli, J., Guesdon, F., and Claret, M. (1984) Biochem.