Results for gage
Definitions of gage:
part of speech: verb transitive
To bind by pledge or security.
part of speech: verb
part of speech: verb transitive
To measure; to find out, as the contents of any receptacle. Also, gauge.
part of speech: verb transitive
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
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
part of speech: noun
Usage examples for gage:
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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