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.
| c 1440 Promp. Parv. 189/1 Gawgynge of depenesse, dimencionatus. 1570 Dee Math. Pref. 16 Of Wine..or Ale vessels, &c., the Measuring, commonly..is called Gaging. 1661 Marvell Corr. xxiv. Wks. 1872–5 II. 60 Your Patent for the gaging of wines. 1665 Phil. 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. 1743 Lond. & Country Brew. ii. (ed. 2) 127 A moving Consideration to an Officer to take Care of oppressing the Subject with Over⁓charges in Gaging. 1867 Jrnl. 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.)
| 1725 W. 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.)
| 1883 Gresley 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.)
| 1882 Caulfeild & 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. 1893 G. Hill Hist. Eng. Dress II. 248 Sleeves made with several small puffs and gaugings. 1896 Daily 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.| 1656 H. Phillips Purch. Patt. (1676) 171 How to make this *Gauging-line, and to set it upon a Gauging-Rod. |
| 1570 J. 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. 1635 Sir C. Cavendish in Rigaud Corr. Sci. Men (1841) I. 22, I thank you..for the way of calculating the divisions of your guaging rod. 1809–12 M. Edgeworth Absentee ix, And the gauging-rod even! who fears it? |
| 1807 Hutton 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. |
| 1656 H. Phillips Purch. Patt. (1676) 162 These *Gauging Rulers are made by Mr. Hayes. 1789 *Gauging stick [see exciseman]. |