Definition of "gager" []

• Variant of gauger. (noun)

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• "I know of some immortal poems that were written by a druggist's clerk, and some by a gager of liquid barrels, but none by a cable-car conductor."
• "Or you might have married a gager and gone to Dublin and mixed with the grand quality."
• "Ellangowan; that young man is the very lad-bairn that Dirk Hatteraick carried off from Warroch wood the day that he murdered the gager."