Meaning of Gage | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname originating as an occupation.
   countable, uncountable
2. Something, such as a glove or other pledge, thrown down as a challenge to combat (now usually figurative).
   transitive
3. Alternative spelling of gauge.
   US, alt-of, alternative, transitive
4. A subspecies of plum, Prunus domestica subsp. italica.
   transitive
5. Marijuana
   dated, slang, transitive, uncountable
6. Initialism of Georgetown Alliance of Graduate Employees.
   abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable
7. A male given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage.
   countable, uncountable
8. Something valuable deposited as a guarantee or pledge; security, ransom.
   obsolete, transitive
9. A pint pot.
   UK, archaic, countable, slang, transitive, uncountable
10. A female given name.
    countable, uncountable
11. A drink.
    UK, archaic, countable, metonymically, slang, transitive, uncountable
12. A place in the United States:
    countable, uncountable
13. An unincorporated community in Ballard County, Kentucky.
    countable, uncountable
14. A tobacco pipe.
    UK, archaic, countable, slang, transitive, uncountable
15. A ghost town in Luna County, New Mexico.
    countable, uncountable
16. A chamber pot.
    UK, archaic, countable, slang, transitive, uncountable
17. A town in Ellis County, Oklahoma, named after Lyman J. Gage.
    countable, uncountable
18. A small quantity of anything.
    UK, archaic, countable, slang, transitive, uncountable
19. An unincorporated community in Barbour County, West Virginia.
    countable, uncountable
20. A quart pot.
    UK, countable, obsolete, transitive, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

““But it is enough that I challenge the trial by combat — there lies my gage.” She took her embroidered glove from her hand, and flung it down before the Grand Master with an air of mingled simplicity and dignity…”

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

“The gage was down for a duel that would split the Democratic party and ensure the election of a Republican president in 1860.”

“[I]t seemed to create a sort of material link between the Princess and himself, and at the end of three months it almost appeared to him, not that the exquisite book was an intended present from his own hand, but that it had been placed in that hand by the most remarkable woman in Europe.... [T]he superior piece of work he had done after seeing her last, in the immediate heat of his emotion, turned into a kind of proof and gage, as if a ghost, in vanishing from sight, had left a palpable relic.”

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

“Black faces, white tablecloth, gleaming very sharp knives lined up by the saucers... tobacco and "gage" smoke richly blended, eye-reddening and tart as wine, yowzah gwine smoke a little ob dis hyah sheeit gib de wrinkles in mah brain a proccess!”

“Troll us a stave, my antediluvian file, and in the mean time tip me a gage of fogus, Jerry”

“GAGE, a small quantity of anything; as “a gage of tobacco,” meaning a. pipeful; “a gage of gin,” a glassful.”

“I bowse no lage, but a whole gage / Of this I'll bowse to you.”

“Harry. To pay, Moll, for I must hike. Moll. Did you call me, Master? Harry. Ay, to pay, in a Whiff. Moll. Let me see. There's a Grunter's Gig, is a Si-Buxom; two Cat's Heads, a Win; a Double Gage of Rum Slobber, is Thrums; and a Quartern of Max, is three Megs: — That makes a Traveller all but a Meg. Harry. Here, take your Traveller, and tip the Meg to the Kinchin.”

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