gage

/ɡeɪd͡ʒ/ · noun

Meaning

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.
To give or deposit as a pledge or security; to pawn.
To wager, to bet.
To bind by pledge, or security; to engage.
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
A thickness of sheet metal or wire designated by any of several numbering schemes.
The distance between the rails of a railway.
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.
To mix (a quantity of ordinary plaster) with a quantity of plaster of Paris.
To chip, hew or polish (stones, bricks, etc) to a standard size and/or shape.
A subspecies of plum, Prunus domestica subsp. italica.
A quart pot.
A pint pot.
(metonymically) A drink.
A tobacco pipe.
A chamberpot.
A small quantity of anything.

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