gage

Verb

1. (transitive) To bind (someone) by pledge or security; to engage.
2. (archaic, transitive) To bet or wager (something).
3. (obsolete, transitive) To deposit or give (something) as a pledge or security; to pawn.

Noun

1. (transitive) Something, such as a glove or other pledge, thrown down as a challenge to combat (now usually figurative).
2. (obsolete, transitive) Something valuable deposited as a guarantee or pledge; security, ransom.

Noun

Alternative spelling of gauge.

Noun

A subspecies of plum, Prunus domestica subsp. italica.

Noun

1. (dated, slang, transitive, uncountable) Marijuana
2. (UK, archaic, countable, slang, transitive, uncountable) A pint pot.
3. (UK, archaic, countable, metonymically, slang, transitive, uncountable) A drink.
4. (UK, archaic, countable, slang, transitive, uncountable) A tobacco pipe.
5. (UK, archaic, countable, slang, transitive, uncountable) A chamber pot.
6. (UK, archaic, countable, slang, transitive, uncountable) A small quantity of anything.
7. (UK, countable, obsolete, transitive, uncountable) A quart pot.

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɡeɪd͡ʒ/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: gage

In summary

From Middle English gage, from later Old French or early Middle French gager (verb), (also guagier in Old French) gage (noun), ultimately from Frankish *waddi, from Proto-Germanic *wadją (whence English wed). Doublet of wage, from the same origin through the Old Northern French variant wage. See also mortgage.

Synonyms

gauge

pledge

measure

meter

security

locoweed

pot

Mary Jane

grass

sess

skunk

🦨

pawn

green goddess

deposit

determine

bet on

count

🔢

game

sens

smoke

punt

stake

dope

guarantee

back

🔙

weed

dew

blonde

block

diameter

average

counter

compute

charge

bash

assess

standard

calibrator

calculate

bar

gangster

burrito

🌯

ganja

gash

funk

gauger

Ghana

🇬🇭

forfeit

grata

bud