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An instrument for measuring or ascertaining the depth or quantity of water, or for indicating the height of its surface, as in the boiler of a steam engine. See Gauge.
See under Gauge, n.
See Water gauge.
A wider distance between the rails than the "standard" gauge of four feet eight inches and a half. See Gauge.
A wall or bank to hold water back.
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Relative positions of two or more vessels with reference to the wind; as, a vessel has the weather gauge of another when on the windward side of it, and the lee gauge when on the lee side of it.
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Any instrument for ascertaining or regulating the dimensions or forms of things; a templet or template; as, a button maker's gauge.
n.
A rain gauge.
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A gauge, pattern, or mold, commonly a thin plate or board, used as a guide to the form of the work to be executed; as, a mason's or a wheelwright's templet.
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One of two officers chosen yearly to regulate the assize of bread, and to see the true gauge of weights and measures is observed.
p. a.
Tested or measured by, or conformed to, a gauge.
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Sheets of tin or other plate which run below the gauge.
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An officer who ascertains the contents of casks, and the quantity of liquors subject to duty; a gauger.
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Capable of being gauged.
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Any instrument or apparatus for measuring the state of a phenomenon, or for ascertaining its numerical elements at any moment; -- usually applied to some particular instrument; as, a rain gauge; a steam gauge.
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Being toward the wind, or windward -- opposed to lee; as, weather bow, weather braces, weather gauge, weather lifts, weather quarter, weather shrouds, etc.
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of Gauge
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The office of a gauger.
v. t.
To measure or determine with a gauge.
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One who gauges; an officer whose business it is to ascertain the contents of casks.
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