Gage

Quick meaning: Gage is a verb meaning To bind (someone) by pledge or security; to engage.

Meaning

To bind (someone) by pledge or security; to engage.

More Meanings

1. Something, such as a glove or other pledge, thrown down as a challenge to combat (now usually figurative).
2. (US) Alternative spelling of gauge.
3. A subspecies of plum, Prunus domestica subsp. italica.
4. (archaic) To bet or wager (something).
5. (obsolete) To deposit or give (something) as a pledge or security; to pawn.
6. (obsolete) Something valuable deposited as a guarantee or pledge; security, ransom.
7. (slang, dated, uncountable) Marijuana

Example Sentences

A moiety competent / Was gaged by our king.

Great debts / Wherein my time, sometimes too prodigal, / Hath left me gaged.

"I'm nothing of the sort," exclaimed the MacQuibble, hurling down the gage of battle at once.

Of course, I take a bang or some mud in coffee now and then, and I pick up on gage right smart.

Word Forms

• gages
• gaging
• gaged

Synonyms for gage

Depending on context, synonyms include gauge, back, game, punt, stake, pot.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include sess, back, game, gauge, stake, punt.

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