gage
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/ɡeɪd͡ʒ/
English
Definitions
noun
- Something, such as a glove or other pledge, thrown down as a challenge to combat (now usually figurative).
- Something valuable deposited as a guarantee or pledge; security, ransom.
verb
- To give or deposit as a pledge or security; to pawn.
- To wager, to bet.
- To bind by pledge, or security; to engage.
noun
- A measure; a standard of measure; an instrument to determine dimensions, distance, or capacity; a standard
- An act of measuring.
- An estimate.
- Any instrument for ascertaining or regulating the level, state, dimensions or forms of things
verb
- To measure or determine with a gauge; to measure the capacity of.
- To estimate.
- To appraise the character or ability of; to judge of.
- To draw into equidistant gathers by running a thread through it.
noun
- A subspecies of plum, Prunus domestica subsp. italica.
noun
- A quart pot.
- A pint pot.
- (metonymically) A drink.
- A tobacco pipe.