gage
Definition of gage:
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part of speech: noun
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part of speech: verb
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part of speech: verb
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part of speech: verb
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part of speech: noun
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part of speech: noun
A pledge or security; a glove or cap, & c., thrown to the ground as a challenge to combat.
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part of speech: verb
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part of speech: noun
A pledge: security for the fulfillment of a promise: something thrown down as a challenge, as a glove.
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Common misspellings:
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- gague (1.1%)
- guage (30.4%)
- gauage (0.2%)
- garge (0.2%)
- grage (0.2%)
- gadge (1.3%)
- gauge (66.6%)
- gaged (0.2%)
Usage examples for gage:
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Miss Anthony and Mrs. Gage had already been through the agony of finding appropriate headquarters for the National Suffrage Association.
"Eighty Years And More; Reminiscences 1815-1897" – Elizabeth Cady Stanton -
Gage had up to this time hesitated to act.
"The Romance of Old New England Rooftrees" – Mary Caroline Crawford
