A surveying officer under the customs, excise, and internal revenue laws, appointed to examine all tuns, pipes, bogs-heads, barrels and tierces of wine, oil, and other liquids, aud to give them a mark of allowance, as containing lawful measure. There are also private gaugers In large sea-port towns, who are licensed by government to perform the same duties. Rapal. & L
Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
