gage

Meaning

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.

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

Translations

pignus

jauge

gage

prenda

indicador

sens

αμανάτι

Messgerät

μετρητής

pîvîn

gager

maconha

aventurar

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.