Gagers

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. Individuals who use devices or tools to widen or keep open the mouth or another orifice; people who measure or assess quantities, levels, or amounts in various contexts; workers or specialists involved in the process of determining volume, especially of liquids
2. Persons equipped with instruments designed to stretch or hold open openings such as mouths or passages; those who evaluate or calculate measurements or standards; technicians skilled in gauging the extent or quantity of substances
3. Users of apparatus meant for expanding or maintaining the openness of bodily or mechanical openings; individuals engaged in the activity of measuring or quantifying parameters; experts who perform assessments of dimensions or capacities, particularly in fluid contexts

Etymology: "Gager" is simply "gage" with the agent suffix "-er" attached, so a gager is one who gages, that is, one who measures. The base word "gage" came into English from Old French "gauge" or "gaugier", meaning to measure, and the Old French suffix "-ier" (from Latin "-arius") was borrowed into English as "-er", the same ending found in words like "baker" or "miner". The plural "gagers" is simply the regular plural of "gager", formed by adding "-s" to the singular. It names people whose job or habit is measuring things, and the word is built transparently from its parts rather than through any special history of its own.

Synonyms: measurers, meters, gaugers, indicators, detectors