A person or instrument that measures or assesses something as a check against another measurement, particularly in commerce or brewing.
From counter- + gauger (from Old French gauge, likely from Germanic roots; a gauger was a tax official who measured). Used historically in commerce to verify quantities.
In colonial times, port officials called countergaugers prevented smuggling by independently measuring cargo—two measurements had to match, an early form of quality control and fraud prevention.
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