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gauging, gaging, vbl. n.|ˈgeɪdʒɪŋ|
[f. gauge v.1 + -ing1.]
1. The action of the vb. gauge in various senses; esp. the action or method of determining by actual measurement the capacity of a vessel or the amount contained in it.
c1440Promp. Parv. 189/1 Gawgynge of depenesse, dimencionatus. 1570Dee Math. Pref. 16 Of Wine..or Ale vessels, &c., the Measuring, commonly..is called Gaging. 1661Marvell Corr. xxiv. Wks. 1872–5 II. 60 Your Patent for the gaging of wines. 1665Phil. Trans. I. 65 For the Figure of the Tool in that way is presently vitiated by the working of the Glass, and without much gaging will not do any thing considerable. 1743Lond. & Country Brew. ii. (ed. 2) 127 A moving Consideration to an Officer to take Care of oppressing the Subject with Over⁓charges in Gaging. 1867Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. Ser. ii. III. ii. 476 Numerous gaugings and samplings of the sewage..have been undertaken.
b. The gauged part (of a thing). rare—1. (Cf. gauge v.1 5.)
1725W. Halfpenny Sound Building 56 The two Gaugings of the Bow A are let into two level Pieces on each side the Puppet-head.
2. Coal-mining. (See quot.)
1883Gresley Gloss. Coal Mining, Gaging, a small embankment or heap of slack or rubbish, made at the entrance to a heading, &c., as a means of fencing it off.
3. Needlework. (See quot. 1882.)
1882Caulfeild & Saward Dict. Needlework, Gauging or Gaging, a term applied to a series of close parallel runnings, which are all drawn up so as to make the material between them set full by gatherings. 1893G. Hill Hist. Eng. Dress II. 248 Sleeves made with several small puffs and gaugings. 1896Daily News 6 June 8/4 The blouse is pink silk muslin, with a few gaugings across the chest to keep the folds in order.
4. attrib. and Comb.: gauging-line, a graduated line for gauging casks, drawn on a gauging-rod or slide-rule; gauging-rod, an exciseman's instrument on the principle of the slide-rule for measuring the capacity or contents of a cask or other vessel; gauging-rule, -ruler, -stick = prec.
1656H. Phillips Purch. Patt. (1676) 171 How to make this *Gauging-line, and to set it upon a Gauging-Rod.
1570J. Dee Math. Pref. A iiij b, By due applying of..*Gaging rod (or such like instrument) to the Length, Plaine, or Solide measured, to be certified, either of the length, perimetry, or distance lineall. 1635Sir C. Cavendish in Rigaud Corr. Sci. Men (1841) I. 22, I thank you..for the way of calculating the divisions of your guaging rod. 1809–12M. Edgeworth Absentee ix, And the gauging-rod even! who fears it?
1807Hutton Course Math. II. 82 On it are marked..the wine and ale gage points, to make this instrument serve the purpose of a *gaging rule.
1656H. Phillips Purch. Patt. (1676) 162 These *Gauging Rulers are made by Mr. Hayes. 1789*Gauging stick [see exciseman]. |