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noun

Gage n.

A pledge or pawn; something laid down or given as a security for the performance of some act by the person depositing it, and forfeited by nonperformance; security. "Nor without gages to the needy lend."

A glove, cap, or the like, cast on the ground as a challenge to combat, and to be taken up by the accepter of the challenge; a challenge; a defiance. "There I throw my gage."

Gage n. A variety of plum; as, the greengage; also, the blue gage, frost gage, golden gage, etc., having more or less likeness to the greengage. See Greengage.

Gage n. A measure or standard. See Gauge, n.

verb

Gage v. t. (past & past part. gaged; pres. part. gaging)

To give or deposit as a pledge or security for some act; to wage or wager; to pawn or pledge. (Obs.) "A moiety competent Was gaged by our king."

To bind by pledge, or security; to engage. "Great debts Wherein my time, sometimes too prodigal, Hath left me gaged."

Gage v. t. To measure. See Gauge, v. t. "You shall not gage me By what we do to-night."

Gauge v. t. (past & past part. gauged; pres. part. gauging) (Written also gage)

To measure or determine with a gauge.

To measure or to ascertain the contents or the capacity of, as of a pipe, barrel, or keg.

(Mech.) To measure the dimensions of, or to test the accuracy of the form of, as of a part of a gunlock. "The vanes nicely gauged on each side."

To draw into equidistant gathers by running a thread through it, as cloth or a garment.

To measure the capacity, character, or ability of; to estimate; to judge of. "You shall not gauge me By what we do to-night."

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— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget

... West end of London, have the horse-shoe on the threshold. It should be a horse-shoe that one finds. In the Bermudas, they use to put an iron into the fire when a witch comes in. Mars is enemy to Saturn. There are very memorable stories of witches in Gage's Survey of the West-Indies of his ...

— Miscellanies upon Various Subjects • John Aubrey

... me an account of them, comes to my lodgings to treat with me about the price. We did not make many words: I bade him the current price which I had bought for some days before, and after a few struggles for five crowns a-tun more, he came to my price, and his next word was to let me know the gage of the cask; and as I had seen the goods already, he thought there was nothing to do but to make a bargain, and order the ...

— The Complete English Tradesman (1839 ed.) • Daniel Defoe

... we were off Rottnest Island, when the pilot came on board and took us to the anchorage in Gage's Roads by noon. Having given instructions to Mr. Turner for the landing of the horses, etc., I landed with Messrs. Brown, Harding, and Hall, all of whom were, at their desire, at once released from the duties of the Expedition. Proceeded by ...

— Journals of Australian Explorations • A C and F T Gregory

... their conference, and without a word or sign opened hostilities with a volley of arrows. The gage of battle had been thrown down. It was fortunate that the warriors were few in comparison with their last enemies. Not more than twenty were counted as they were waiting for the result ...

— The Wonder Island Boys: The Tribesmen • Roger Finlay

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