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Added 9 October 2026

gage

/ɡeɪd͡ʒ/ verb

verb Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA). Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about gage at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

To bind (someone) by pledge or security; to engage.
To bet or wager (something).
To deposit or give (something) as a pledge or security; to pawn.

noun

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

noun

Alternative spelling of gauge.

verb

Alternative spelling of gauge.

Origin

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.

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