gage
- Proper noun. (surname, from Middle English) .
- Proper noun. (given name, male) , modern transferred use of the surname.
- Verb. (alternative spelling of, gauge) To measure.
- Verb. (obsolete) To give or deposit as a pledge or security; to pawn.
- Verb. (archaic) To wager, to bet.
- Noun. Something, such as a glove or other pledge thrown down as a challenge to combat (now usually figurative).
- Noun. (alternative spelling of, gauge) Used especially as a technical term of measuring devices and standard measures.
- 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.
- Noun. A short form of greengage.
- Noun. (obsolete) Something valuable deposited as a guarantee or pledge; security, ransom.
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