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gage

verb
/ɡeɪd͡ʒ/

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.

  1. derived from *wadją✻
  2. derived from *wadi✻
  3. derived from gager
  4. inherited from gage

Definitions

  1. To bind (someone) by pledge or security

    To bind (someone) by pledge or security; to engage.

    • Great debts / Wherein my time, sometimes too prodigal, / Hath left me gaged.

  2. To bet or wager (something).

    • 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.

  3. To deposit or give (something) as a pledge or security

    To deposit or give (something) as a pledge or security; to pawn.

    • A moiety competent / Was gaged by our king.
  4. ›+ 16 more definitions

    1. Something, such as a glove or other pledge, thrown down as a challenge to combat (now…

      Something, such as a glove or other pledge, thrown down as a challenge to combat (now usually figurative).

      • “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…
      • "I'm nothing of the sort," exclaimed the MacQuibble, hurling down the gage of battle at once.
      • The gage was down for a duel that would split the Democratic party and ensure the election of a Republican president in 1860.

    2. Something valuable deposited as a guarantee or pledge

      Something valuable deposited as a guarantee or pledge; security, ransom.

    3. Alternative spelling of gauge.

    4. A subspecies of plum, Prunus domestica subsp. italica.

    5. Marijuana

      • Of course, I take a bang or some mud in coffee now and then, and I pick up on gage right smart.

    6. A pint pot.

    7. A drink.

    8. A tobacco pipe.

      • Troll us a stave, my antediluvian file, and in the mean time tip me a gage of fogus, Jerry

    9. A chamber pot.

    10. A small quantity of anything.

      • GAGE, a small quantity of anything; as “a gage of tobacco,” meaning a. pipeful; “a gage of gin,” a glassful.

    11. A quart pot.

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

    12. A surname originating as an occupation.

    13. A male given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage.

    14. A female given name.

    15. A place in the United States

      A place in the United States:

    16. Initialism of Georgetown Alliance of Graduate Employees.

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