Possible Clues:

• Scale this sort of bail in a crate
• Make one's mark and graduate
• Fix a gauge
• Make fine adjustments to
• Graduate makes a case, penning short excuse
• Ensure an accurate reading of
• Graduate dumps case outside a library briefly
• Mark to a standard, having caught annoying kid in a whopper
• Mark (a gauge) with a scale of readings
• Mark the scale of a measuring instrument