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noun

Gage n.

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."

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.

verb

Gage v. t. (past & past part. gaged; pres. part. gaging)

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."

To bind by pledge, or security; to engage. "Great debts Wherein my time, sometimes too prodigal, Hath left me gaged."

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

Gauge v. t. (past & past part. gauged; pres. part. gauging) (Written also gage)

To measure or determine with a gauge.

To measure or to ascertain the contents or the capacity of, as of a pipe, barrel, or keg.

(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."

To draw into equidistant gathers by running a thread through it, as cloth or a garment.

To measure the capacity, character, or ability of; to estimate; to judge of. "You shall not gauge me By what we do to-night."

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... Yonder went Blakeney's 27th Regiment, and yonder the Highlanders of the Black Watch; Abercromby's 44th, Howe's 55th with their idolised young commander, the 60th or Royal Americans in two battalions; Gage's Light Infantry, Bradstreet's axemen and bateau-men, Starke's rangers; a few friendly Indians—but the great Johnson was hurrying up with more, maybe with five hundred; in all fifteen thousand men and over. ...

— Fort Amity • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

... among Negroes has undoubtedly been that of secret societies commonly known as "lodges." The benefit societies were not necessarily secret and call for separate consideration. On March 6, 1775, an army lodge attached to one of the regiments stationed under General Gage in or near Boston initiated Prince Hall and fourteen other colored men into the mysteries of Freemasonry.[1] These fifteen men on March 2, 1784, applied to the Grand Lodge of England for a warrant. This was issued to "African Lodge, No. ...

— A Social History of the American Negro • Benjamin Brawley

... not all. What was the character—what the tendency of the letters of "Valley Forge" who has unquestionably committed a deep injury, in maintaining his anonymous character, and failing to redeem "his gage," thrown down with so much defiance to Mr. Spear Smith—what, we say, was the tendency of his letters? It was laudable, noble, exemplary. It was to vindicate Washington, and his co-patriots, from all suspicion of being associated ...

— Nuts for Future Historians to Crack • Various

... sixteenth, Colonel Gage, with two companies of the Forty-Fourth and the last division of the train, toiled into camp, very weary and travel-stained, and on this day, too, was the first death among the officers, Captain Bromley, ...

— A Soldier of Virginia • Burton Egbert Stevenson

... the uprising was terrific, for the population rushed together as one man—as Gage, the commander of Fort George ...

— The Great Riots of New York 1712 to 1873 • J.T. Headley

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