gage

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Verb 1.3.1 Translations 1.4 Noun 1.4.1 Translations 2 French 2.1 Etymology 2.2 Pronunciation 2.3 Noun

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[edit] Etymology

From Old (and modern) French gager (verb), gage (noun), from Frankish *waddi, from Germanic ( > English wed).

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• IPA: /geɪʤ/

  Rhymes: -eɪdʒ

[edit] Verb

to gage (third-person singular simple present gages, present participle gaging, simple past and past participle gaged)

1. Alternative spelling of gauge. To measure.
2. (obsolete) To give or deposit as a pledge or security; to pawn
3. (archaic) To wager, to bet.

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[edit] Noun

gage (plural gages)

1. Something, such as a glove or other pledge thrown down as a challenge to combat.

   • 1819, “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 — Walter Scott, Ivanhoe

2. Alternative spelling of gauge. Used especially as a technical term of measuring devices and standard measures.
3. A form of jewelry which creates a hole of variable size in the earlobe, popular especially among some young people in the West, perhaps on analogy with similar devices found in various non-Western indigenous cultures.
4. A short form of greengage.
5. (obsolete) Something valuable deposited as a guarantee or pledge; security, ransom.

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[edit] French

[edit] Etymology

Old French, from Frankish *waddi (a Germanic legal term, cognate with Old English wedd).

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• IPA: /gaʒ/

[edit] Noun

gage m.

1. a pledge or security
2. a guarantee
3. proof, evidence