What's the difference between gauger and sauger?

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.

Sauger


Definition:

  • (n.) An American fresh-water food fish (Stizostedion Canadense); -- called also gray pike, blue pike, hornfish, land pike, sand pike, pickering, and pickerel.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Cones in the retinas of two closely related species of perch, the walleye and sauger (S, vitreum vitreum and S. canadense), are remarkably large.
  • (2) the yellow perch (Perca flavescens), the walleye (Stizostedion vitreum) and the sauger (S. canadense), were studied in situ using a microspectrophotometer-computer complex.
  • (3) The yellow perch inhabits mostly shallow, clear waters while the walleye and sauger prefer turbid waters.
  • (4) is at 530 nm in the yellow perch, 533 nm in the walleye and at 536 in the sauger.

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