"To measure or determine with a gauge."
How to pronounce gauge in English
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"To measure or to ascertain the contents or the capacity of as of a pipe barrel or keg."
"To measure the dimensions of or to test the accuracy of the form of as of a part of a gunlock."
"To draw into equidistant gathers by running a thread through it as cloth or a garment."
"To measure the capacity character or ability of; to estimate; to judge of."
"A measure; a standard of measure; an instrument to determine dimensions distance or capacity; a standard."
"Measure; dimensions; estimate."
"Any instrument for ascertaining or regulating the dimensions or forms of things; a templet or template; as a button maker's gauge."
"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."
"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."
"The depth to which a vessel sinks in the water."
"The distance between the rails of a railway."
"The quantity of plaster of Paris used with common plaster to accelerate its setting."
"That part of a shingle slate or tile which is exposed to the weather when laid; also one course of such shingles slates or tiles."