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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: Gage (0.00894 detik)
Found 2 items, similar to Gage.
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Definition: gage 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]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Gage Gage \Gage\ (g[=a]j), n. [So called because an English family named Gage imported the greengage from France, in the last century.] 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. [1913 Webster] Gage \Gage\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gaged (g[=a]jd); p. pr & vb. n. Gaging (g[=a]"j[i^]ng).] [Cf. F. gager. See Gage, n., a pledge.] 1. To give or deposit as a pledge or security for some act; to wage or wager; to pawn or pledge. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] A moiety competent Was gaged by our king. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. To bind by pledge, or security; to engage. [1913 Webster] Great debts Wherein my time, sometimes too prodigal, Hath left me gaged. --Shak. [1913 Webster] Gage \Gage\ (g[=a]j), n. [F. gage, LL. gadium, wadium; of German origin; cf. Goth. wadi, OHG. wetti, weti, akin to E. wed. See Wed, and cf. Wage, 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. [1913 Webster] Nor without gages to the needy lend. --Sandys. [1913 Webster] 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.” --Shak. [1913 Webster] Gage \Gage\, n. A measure or standard. See Gauge, n. [1913 Webster] Gage \Gage\, v. t. To measure. See Gauge, v. t. [1913 Webster] You shall not gage me By what we do to-night. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
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