gage /ˈgeʤ/
 抵押品,挑戰(vt.)以…為擔保,以…為賭注標準度量


 gage /ˈgeʤ/ 名詞
 規,計器,(量)尺


 Gage, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gaged p. pr & vb. n. Gaging ]
 1. To give or deposit as a pledge or security for some act; to wage or wager; to pawn or pledge. [Obs.]
 A moiety competent
 Was gaged by our king.   --Shak.
 2. To bind by pledge, or security; to engage.
 Great debts
 Wherein my time, sometimes too prodigal,
 Hath left me gaged.   --Shak.


 Gage n.
 1. A pledge or pawn; something laid down or given as a security for the performance of some act by the person depositing it, and forfeited by nonperformance; security.
    Nor without gages to the needy lend.   --Sandys.
 2. A glove, cap, or the like, cast on the ground as a challenge to combat, and to be taken up by the accepter of the challenge; a challenge; a defiance. “There I throw my gage.”


 Gage n.  A variety of plum; as, the greengage; also, the blue gage, frost gage, golden gage, etc., having more or less likeness to the greengage. See Greengage.


 Gage, n. A measure or standard. See Gauge, n.


 Gage, v. t. To measure. See Gauge, v. t.
 You shall not gage me
 By what we do to-night.   --Shak.

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 Gauge v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gauged p. pr. & vb. n. Gauging ]  [Written also gage.]
 1. To measure or determine with a gauge.
 2. To measure or to ascertain the contents or the capacity of, as of a pipe, barrel, or keg.
 3. Mech. To measure the dimensions of, or to test the accuracy of the form of, as of a part of a gunlock.
    The vanes nicely gauged on each side.   --Derham.
 4. To draw into equidistant gathers by running a thread through it, as cloth or a garment.
 5. To measure the capacity, character, or ability of; to estimate; to judge of.
 You shall not gauge me
 By what we do to-night.   --Shak.


 gage
      n 1: street names for marijuana [syn: pot, grass, {green
           goddess, dope, weed, sess, sens, smoke, skunk,
            locoweed, Mary Jane]
      2: a measuring instrument for measuring and indicating a
         quantity such as the thickness of wire or the amount of
         rain etc. [syn: gauge]
      v : place a bet on; "Which horse are you backing?"; "I'm betting
          on the new horse" [syn: bet on, back, stake, game,
           punt]