gage

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1. 1

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

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

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   archaïqueTo 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.

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

   A moiety competent / Was gaged by our king.

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   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.

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

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   Variante de gaugeAlternative spelling of gauge.

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   Variante de gaugeAlternative spelling of gauge.

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   A subspecies of plum, Prunus domestica subsp. italica.

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   vieilliMarijuana

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

   Black faces, white tablecloth, gleaming very sharp knives lined up by the saucers... tobacco and "gage" smoke richly blended, eye-reddening and tart as wine, yowzah gwine smoke a little ob dis hyah sheeit gib de wrinkles in mah brain a proccess!

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   archaïqueA pint pot.

3. 3

   archaïqueA drink.

4. 4

   archaïqueA tobacco pipe.

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

5. 5

   archaïqueA chamber pot.

6. 6

   archaïqueA small quantity of anything.

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

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   obsolèteA quart pot.

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

   Harry. To pay, Moll, for I must hike. Moll. Did you call me, Master? Harry. Ay, to pay, in a Whiff. Moll. Let me see. There's a Grunter's Gig, is a Si-Buxom; two Cat's Heads, a Win; a Double Gage of Rum Slobber, is Thrums; and a Quartern of Max, is three Megs: — That makes a Traveller all but a Meg. Harry. Here, take your Traveller, and tip the Meg to the Kinchin.

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