gauging

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of gauge

noun

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

   “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”

   “periodic gaugings of the water level”

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