gage

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

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

To bet or wager (something).archaictransitive

• 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.

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

• A moiety competent / Was gaged by our king.

Something, such as a glove or other pledge, thrown down as a challenge to combat (now usually figurative).transitive

• “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.

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

• [I]t seemed to create a sort of material link between the Princess and himself, and at the end of three months it almost appeared to him, not that the exquisite book was an intended present from his own hand, but that it had been placed in

Alternative spelling of gauge.USalt-ofalternative

Alternative spelling of gauge.USalt-ofalternative

A subspecies of plum, Prunus domestica subsp. italica.transitive

Marijuanadatedslangtransitive

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

A pint pot.UKarchaiccountable

A drink.UKarchaiccountable

A tobacco pipe.UKarchaiccountable

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

A chamber pot.UKarchaiccountable

A small quantity of anything.UKarchaiccountable

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

A quart pot.UKcountableobsolete

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