gage

Meaning

1. To bind (someone) by pledge or security; to engage.
2. To bet or wager (something).
3. To deposit or give (something) as a pledge or security; to pawn.
4. Something, such as a glove or other pledge, thrown down as a challenge to combat (now usually figurative).
5. Something valuable deposited as a guarantee or pledge; security, ransom.
6. Alternative spelling of gauge.
7. A subspecies of plum, Prunus domestica subsp. italica.
8. Marijuana
9. A pint pot.
10. A drink.
11. A tobacco pipe.
12. A chamber pot.
13. A small quantity of anything.
14. A quart pot.
15. A surname originating as an occupation.
16. A male given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage.
17. A female given name.
18. A place in the United States:
19. An unincorporated community in Ballard County, Kentucky.
20. A ghost town in Luna County, New Mexico.
21. A town in Ellis County, Oklahoma, named after Lyman J. Gage.
22. An unincorporated community in Barbour County, West Virginia.
23. Initialism of Georgetown Alliance of Graduate Employees.

Etymology / origin

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.

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