Gage
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gage¹
- /ɡeɪd͡ʒ/
Sounds like gauge · Rhymes with -eɪdʒ
Where it comes from
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.
verb gages · gaging · gaged
- To bind (someone) by pledge or security; to engage. Great debts / Wherein my time, sometimes too prodigal, / Hath left me gaged.
- 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.
- To deposit or give (something) as a pledge or security; to pawn. A moiety competent / Was gaged by our king.
noun gages
- 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…
- Something valuable deposited as a guarantee or pledge; security, ransom. [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 s
gage²
- /ɡeɪd͡ʒ/
Sounds like gauge · Rhymes with -eɪdʒ
Where it comes from
See gauge.
noun gages
- Alternative spelling of gauge.gauge
verb gages · gaging · gaged
- Alternative spelling of gauge.gauge
gage³
- /ɡeɪd͡ʒ/
Sounds like gauge · Rhymes with -eɪdʒ
Where it comes from
Back-formation from greengage.
noun gages
- A subspecies of plum, Prunus domestica subsp. italica.
gage⁴
- /ɡeɪd͡ʒ/
Sounds like gauge · Rhymes with -eɪdʒ
noun gages
- Marijuana Of course, I take a bang or some mud in coffee now and then, and I pick up on gage right smart.
- A pint pot.
- A drink.
- A tobacco pipe. Troll us a stave, my antediluvian file, and in the mean time tip me a gage of fogus, Jerry
- A chamber pot.
- 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.
- A quart pot. I bowse no lage, but a whole gage / Of this I'll bowse to you.
Gage⁵
- /ɡeɪd͡ʒ/
Sounds like gauge · Rhymes with -eɪdʒ
Where it comes from
An occupational surname from Middle English gage, guage (“measure”) for an assayer, or gage (“pledge”) for a moneylender.
proper noun Gages
- A surname originating as an occupation.
- A male given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage.
- A female given name.
- An unincorporated community in Ballard County, Kentucky.
- A ghost town in Luna County, New Mexico.
- A town in Ellis County, Oklahoma, named after Lyman J. Gage.
- An unincorporated community in Barbour County, West Virginia.
GAGE⁶
noun
- Initialism of Georgetown Alliance of Graduate Employees.Georgetown Alliance of Graduate Employees
