gage
verbosubstantivosubstantivoverbosubstantivosubstantivoatestado nos diálogos
- //ɡeɪd͡ʒ//
To bind (someone) by pledge or security; to engage.
verbo
- 1
To bind (someone) by pledge or security; to engage.
Great debts / Wherein my time, sometimes too prodigal, / Hath left me gaged.
- 2
arcaicoTo 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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obsoletoTo deposit or give (something) as a pledge or security; to pawn.
A moiety competent / Was gaged by our king.
Etimologia
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.
substantivo
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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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obsoletoSomething valuable deposited as a guarantee or pledge; security, ransom.
substantivo
- 1
Variante de gaugeAlternative spelling of gauge.
Etimologia
See gauge.
verbo
- 1
Variante de gaugeAlternative spelling of gauge.
substantivo
- 1
A subspecies of plum, Prunus domestica subsp. italica.
Etimologia
Back-formation from greengage.
substantivo
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antiquadoMarijuana
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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arcaicoA pint pot.
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arcaicoA drink.
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arcaicoA tobacco pipe.
Troll us a stave, my antediluvian file, and in the mean time tip me a gage of fogus, Jerry
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arcaicoA chamber pot.
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arcaicoA 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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obsoletoA 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.
Formas
- plural
- gages
- pretérito
- gaged
- particípio passado
- gaged
- gerúndio
- gaging
- 3.ª pessoa do singular
- gages
gage · To bind (someone) by pledge or security; to engage.
Gage · A surname originating as an occupation.gagging · A gag motion or reflex.gah · Expressing exasperation or annoyance.