A Quick and Simple Dictionary

Gage

1. Proper noun.  (surname, from Middle English) .
2. Proper noun.  (given name, male) , modern transferred use of the surname.
3. Verb.  (alternative spelling of, gauge) To measure.
4. Verb.  (obsolete) To give or deposit as a pledge or security; to pawn.
5. Verb.  (archaic) To wager, to bet.
6. Noun.  Something, such as a glove or other pledge thrown down as a challenge to combat (now usually figurative).
7. Noun.  (alternative spelling of, gauge) Used especially as a technical term of measuring devices and standard measures.
8. Noun.  A form of jewelry which creates a hole of variable size in the earlobe, popular especially among some young people in the West, perhaps on analogy with similar devices found in various non-Western indigenous cultures.
9. Noun.  A short form of greengage.
10. Noun.  (obsolete) Something valuable deposited as a guarantee or pledge; security, ransom.