The rank or office of a gauger.

The addition of various materials to lime mortar || (sewing) A shirring.

One who gauges. || An officer whose business it is to ascertain the contents of casks.

A measure; a standard of measure; an instrument to determine dimensions, distance, or capacity; a standard || An act of measuring. || Any instrument for ascertaining or regulating the level, state, dimensions or forms of things || A thickness of sheet metal or wire designated by any of several numbering schemes. || (rail transport) The distance between the rails of a railway. || (mathematics) A semi-norm; a function that assigns a non-negative size to all vectors in a vector space. || (knitting) The number of stitches per inch, centimetre, or other unit of distance. || (nautical) Relative positions of two or more vessels with reference to the wind. || (nautical) The depth to which a vessel sinks in the water. || (plastering) The quantity of plaster of Paris used with common plaster to make it set more quickly. || That part of a shingle, slate, or tile, which is exposed to the weather, when laid; also, one course of such shingles, slates, or tiles. || (firearms) A unit of measurement which describes how many spheres of bore diameter of a shotgun can be had from one pound of lead; 12 gauge is roughly equivalent to.75 caliber. || (slang, by extension) A shotgun (synecdoche for 12 gauge shotgun, the most common chambering for combat and hunting shotguns). || A tunnel-like ear piercing consisting of a hollow ring embedded in the lobe.