Results for gage

Definitions of gage:

part of speech: verb transitive

To bind by pledge or security.

part of speech: verb

To measure- see gauge.

part of speech: verb transitive

To measure; to find out, as the contents of any receptacle. Also, gauge.

part of speech: verb transitive

To measure. Same as GAUGE.

part of speech: noun

In weather- gage, the windward of a ship.

part of speech: noun

A pledge or security; a glove or cap, & c., thrown to the ground as a challenge to combat.

part of speech: noun

A variety of plum.

part of speech: noun

A pledge: security for the fulfillment of a promise: something thrown down as a challenge, as a glove.

part of speech: noun

A promise or agreement; a security; a kind of plum; a challenge to fight; a glove, cap, or the like thrown on the ground as a challenge to fight.

part of speech: verb

To pledge; to wager.

part of speech: noun

A standard of measure; a measuring rod.

Usage examples for gage:

• Mrs. Gage pitched" into Robert, as Wat Greenwood would say, and the christening is off again. "Scenes and Characters", Charlotte M. Yonge

• Truly, it had been no fault but my own that I had taken up the gage she flung at me that night so long ago. "Cardigan", Robert W. Chambers

• And Spud, speaking half aloud, counted slowly to a hundred, then another hundred, as a gage of the time while he waited for those beyond the door to move on. "The Finding of Haldgren", Charles Willard Diffin