The office, position, or tenure of a gauger, a person officially appointed to measure or test goods like liquids or grain.
From 'gauger' (one who gauges) + '-ship' (denoting office or status). 'Gauger' comes from Middle French 'jauge' meaning measure or gauge, ultimately from Germanic roots. The suffix '-ship' is Old English, used to form nouns indicating positions or conditions.
Gaugership was once a crucial government position—tax collectors needed official gaugers to measure barrels of ale or wine to determine how much tax was owed, making this a job that literally helped fund kingdoms and wars.
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