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gaugers
n. (plural of gauger English)
Usage examples of "gaugers".
Its ostensible purpose was the protection of fisher rights, and a kind of co-operative insurance against the perils of the sea, but these rights were generously interpreted, and there had been times when free-trade was its main concern, and the east-coast gaugers led a weary life.
That would be the clatter of horses I heard at the stable door and took for the gaugers from Berwick.
At the time of which I am writing these gaugers were the dregs of the people, but would become tractable on being treated with a little politeness.