Talk:gage

Verification for a sense?

Can someone give a quote or citation for US usage of gage. | An official document of some sort would be more authoratative. — This comment was unsigned.

The adjective sense (synonym of measured?) doesn't look American, it looks simply wrong. --Connel MacKenzie 00:03, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

Wow, what a mess. --Connel MacKenzie 00:24, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

Missing sense and etymological evidence

Currently, the page lists a number of British slang senses related to pots and bowls under a "Etymology 4" heading without any notes on their origins. Could the senses be related to the sense "a bowl or tub to receive the cream as it is successively skimmed off" recorded in The Vocabulary of East Anglia? If so, that would mean that these senses should be moved to the second etymology section. —The Editor's Apprentice (talk) 06:02, 10 February 2021 (UTC)

Further documenting dictionaries include Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present and An English Dictionary. The later seems to make the wild claim that the term is Latin. —The Editor's Apprentice (talk) 06:20, 10 February 2021 (UTC)

The "marijuana" sense is surprising. It's remotely possible that it's a semantic association of "pot", but as the "pot" senses of gage are all archaic, I suspect it belongs under a 5th etymology section as a variant form of ganja. —Mahāgaja · talk 06:44, 23 June 2022 (UTC)