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Gage
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- 1 A surname originating as an occupation. countable, uncountable
- 2 A male given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage. countable, uncountable
- 3 A female given name. countable, uncountable
- 4 A place in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Ballard County, Kentucky. countable, uncountable
- 5 A place in the United States:; A ghost town in Luna County, New Mexico. countable, uncountable
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- 6 A place in the United States:; A town in Ellis County, Oklahoma, named after Lyman J. Gage. countable, uncountable
- 7 A place in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Barbour County, West Virginia. countable, uncountable
- 1 Something, such as a glove or other pledge, thrown down as a challenge to combat (now usually figurative). transitive
"“But it is enough that I challenge the trial by combat — there lies my gage.” She took her embroidered glove from her hand, and flung it down before the Grand Master with an air of mingled simplicity and dignity…"
- 2 Alternative spelling of gauge. US, alt-of, alternative, transitive
- 3 A subspecies of plum, Prunus domestica subsp. italica. transitive
- 4 Marijuana dated, slang, transitive, uncountable
"Of course, I take a bang or some mud in coffee now and then, and I pick up on gage right smart."
- 5 Initialism of Georgetown Alliance of Graduate Employees. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable
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- 6 a measuring instrument for measuring and indicating a quantity such as the thickness of wire or the amount of rain etc. wordnet
- 7 Something valuable deposited as a guarantee or pledge; security, ransom. obsolete, transitive
"[I]t seemed to create a sort of material link between the Princess and himself, and at the end of three months it almost appeared to him, not that the exquisite book was an intended present from his own hand, but that it had been placed in that hand by the most remarkable woman in Europe.... [T]he superior piece of work he had done after seeing her last, in the immediate heat of his emotion, turned into a kind of proof and gage, as if a ghost, in vanishing from sight, had left a palpable relic."
- 8 A pint pot. UK, archaic, countable, slang, transitive, uncountable
- 9 street names for marijuana wordnet
- 10 A drink. UK, archaic, countable, metonymically, slang, transitive, uncountable
- 11 A tobacco pipe. UK, archaic, countable, slang, transitive, uncountable
"Troll us a stave, my antediluvian file, and in the mean time tip me a gage of fogus, Jerry"
- 12 A chamber pot. UK, archaic, countable, slang, transitive, uncountable
- 13 A small quantity of anything. UK, archaic, countable, slang, transitive, uncountable
"GAGE, a small quantity of anything; as “a gage of tobacco,” meaning a. pipeful; “a gage of gin,” a glassful."
- 14 A quart pot. UK, countable, obsolete, transitive, uncountable
"I bowse no lage, but a whole gage / Of this I'll bowse to you."
- 1 To bind (someone) by pledge or security; to engage. transitive
"Great debts / Wherein my time, sometimes too prodigal, / Hath left me gaged."
- 2 Alternative spelling of gauge. US, alt-of, alternative, transitive
- 3 place a bet on wordnet
- 4 To bet or wager (something). archaic, transitive
"O doe not goe, this feaſt (I'le gage my life) / Is but a plot to trayne you to your ruine, / Be rul'd, you ſha'not goe."
- 5 To deposit or give (something) as a pledge or security; to pawn. obsolete, transitive
"A moiety competent / Was gaged by our king."
Etymology
From Middle English gage, from later Old French or early Middle French gager (verb), (also guagier in Old French) gage (noun), ultimately from Frankish *waddi, from Proto-Germanic *wadją (whence English wed). Doublet of wage, from the same origin through the Old Northern French variant wage. See also mortgage.
From Middle English gage, from later Old French or early Middle French gager (verb), (also guagier in Old French) gage (noun), ultimately from Frankish *waddi, from Proto-Germanic *wadją (whence English wed). Doublet of wage, from the same origin through the Old Northern French variant wage. See also mortgage.
See gauge.
See gauge.
Back-formation from greengage.
An occupational surname from Middle English gage, guage (“measure”) for an assayer, or gage (“pledge”) for a moneylender.
See also for "gage"
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