Lage

noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Water; any weak alcoholic beverage. UK, obsolete, uncountable

    "I bowse no lage, but a whole gage / Of this I'll bowse to you."

Verb
  1. 1
    To drink. UK, obsolete

    "I saye by the Salomon I will lage it of with a gage of Benebouse; then cut to my nose watch."

Example

More examples

"I bowse no lage, but a whole gage / Of this I'll bowse to you."

Etymology

Probably from Irish lag (“weak”), from Old Irish lac, from Proto-Celtic *laggos, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)leh₁g-.

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