gauging

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of gauge

plural gaugings

1. Measurement or estimation, with or as if with a gauge.

   periodic gaugings of the water level

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   Some birds do indeed sing through the night of all we can remember, temperature gaugings at the site of our earliest emergence revealing that all was cool then

   1986, Brad Johnson, “Coming of Age”, in Joseph Beam, editor, In The Life: A Black Gay Anthology, page 19

2. The addition of various materials to lime mortar.
3. businessA shirring.