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GAGE, n.

1. A box or inclosure, made of boards, or with lattice work of wood, wicker or wire, for confining birds or beasts. For the confinement of the more strong and ferocious beasts, a cage is sometimes made of iron.

2. An inclosure made with pallisades for confining wild beasts.

3. A prison for petty criminals.

4. In carpentry, an outer work of timber, inclosing another within it; as the cage of a wind mill or of a stair case.


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GAGE, n.

1. A box or inclosure, made of boards, or with lattice work of wood, wicker or wire, for confining birds or beasts. For the confinement of the more strong and ferocious beasts, a cage is sometimes made of iron.

2. An inclosure made with pallisades for confining wild beasts.

3. A prison for petty criminals.

4. In carpentry, an outer work of timber, inclosing another within it; as the cage of a wind mill or of a stair case.

GAGE, n. [Fr. gage, a pledge, whence gager, to pledge; engager, to engage; G. wagen, to wage, to hazard or risk; wage, a balance; D. waagen, to venture, Sw. våga, Eng. to wage. It seems to be allied to wag, weigh. The primary sense is to throw, to lay, or deposit. If the elements are Bg, Wg, the original French orthography was guage.]

  1. A pledge or pawn; something laid down or given as a security for the performance of some act to be done by the person depositing the thing, and which is to be forfeited by non-performance. It is used of a movable thing; not of land or other immovable. There I throw my gage. – Shak.
  2. A challenge to combat; that is, a glove, a cap, a gauntlet, or the like, cast on the ground by the challenger, and taken up by the accepter of the challenge. – Encyc.
  3. A measure, or rule of measuring; a standard. [See Gauge.] – Young.
  4. The number of feet which a ship sinks in the water.
  5. Among letter-founders, a piece of hard wood variously notched, used to adjust the dimensions, slopes, &c. of the various sorts of letters. – Encyc.
  6. An instrument in joinery made to strike a line parallel to the straight side of a board. – Encyc. A sliding-gage, a tool used by mathematical instrument makers for measuring and setting off distances. – Encyc. Sea-gage, an instrument for finding the depth of the sea. – Encyc. Tide-gage, an instrument for determining the highth of the tides. – Encyc. Wind-gage, an instrument for measuring the force of the wind on any given surface. – Encyc. Weather-gage, the windward side of a ship.

GAGE, v.t.

  1. To pledge; to pawn; to give or deposit as a pledge or security for some other act; to wage or wager. [Obs.] – Shak.
  2. To bind by pledge, caution or security; to engage. – Shak.
  3. To measure; to take or ascertain the contents of a vessel, cask or ship; written also gauge.

Gage
  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 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.
  3. 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.

  4. A measure or standard. See Gauge, n.
  5. To measure. See Gauge, v. t.

    You shall not gage me
    By what we do to-night.     Shak.

  6. 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.
  7. To bind by pledge, or security; to engage.

    Great debts
    Wherein my time, sometimes too prodigal,
    Hath left me gaged.     Shak.

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Gage

GAGE, noun

1. A box or inclosure, made of boards, or with lattice work of wood, wicker or wire, for confining birds or beasts. For the confinement of the more strong and ferocious beasts, a cage is sometimes made of iron.

2. An inclosure made with pallisades for confining wild beasts.

3. A prison for petty criminals.

4. In carpentry, an outer work of timber, inclosing another within it; as the cage of a wind mill or of a stair case.

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