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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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"Gage" Quotes from Famous Books

... apiece; those who had none, to satisfy their forfeits, did leave their cloaks behind them. The Tragedy of the spectators was the Comedy of the soldiers. There was abundance of the female sex, who, not able to pay five shillings, did leave some gage or other behind them, insomuch that although the next day after the Fair was expected to be a new fair of hoods, of aprons, and of scarfs; all which, their poverty being made known, and after some check for their trespass, were civilly ...

— Shakespearean Playhouses - A History of English Theatres from the Beginnings to the Restoration • Joseph Quincy Adams

... infuriated Frenchman. He has struck me, and I will have his heart's blood. Sacre nomme de Dieu!" screamed he, forgetting his usual polished manner along with his English, and leaping about like a madman. "Donnez moi son gage!" ...

— Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII. No. 5. May 1848 • Various

... twisting. All moldings, beads, etc., are to be carved by hand, no planes being used. Having traced the lines of your design upon the board, you may begin, if there are moldings as in Fig. 32, by using a joiner's marking gage to groove out the deepest parts of the parallel lines in the moldings along the edges, doing the same to the curved ones with a V tool or Veiner. Then form the moldings with your chisels or gouges. Keep them very flat in section as in Fig. ...

— Wood-Carving - Design and Workmanship • George Jack

... moment fifteen hundred miles behind him; but Rob's geography had always been his stumbling block at school, and he had not learned to gage the speed of the traveling machine; so he was completely mystified as to ...

— The Master Key - An Electrical Fairy Tale • L. Frank Baum

... But Rome, having become supreme in Italy, also cast envious eyes on Sicily. She believed, too, that the Carthaginians, if they should conquer Sicily, would sooner or later invade southern Italy. The fear for her possessions, as well as the desire to gain new ones, led Rome to fling down the gage of battle. ...

— EARLY EUROPEAN HISTORY • HUTTON WEBSTER

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