gage

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Something, such as a glove or other pledge, thrown down as a challenge to combat (now usually figurative). transitive
    — “But it is enough that I challenge the trial by combat — there lies my gage.” She took her embroidered glove from her hand, and flung it down before the Grand Master with an air of mingled simplicity and dignity…
  2. Alternative spelling of gauge. US,alt-of,alternative,transitive
  3. A subspecies of plum, Prunus domestica subsp. italica. transitive
  4. Marijuana dated,slang,transitive,uncountable
    — Of course, I take a bang or some mud in coffee now and then, and I pick up on gage right smart.
  5. Something valuable deposited as a guarantee or pledge; security, ransom. obsolete,transitive
    — [I]t seemed to create a sort of material link between the Princess and himself, and at the end of three months it almost appeared to him, not that the exquisite book was an intended present from his own hand, but that it had been placed in that hand by the most remarkable woman in Europe.... [T]he superior piece of work he had done after seeing her last, in the immediate heat of his emotion, turned into a kind of proof and gage, as if a ghost, in vanishing from sight, had left a palpable relic.
  6. A pint pot. UK,archaic,countable,slang,transitive
  7. A drink. UK,archaic,countable,metonymically,slang
  8. A tobacco pipe. UK,archaic,countable,slang,transitive
    — Troll us a stave, my antediluvian file, and in the mean time tip me a gage of fogus, Jerry
  9. A chamber pot. UK,archaic,countable,slang,transitive
  10. A small quantity of anything. UK,archaic,countable,slang,transitive
    — GAGE, a small quantity of anything; as “a gage of tobacco,” meaning a. pipeful; “a gage of gin,” a glassful.
  11. A quart pot. UK,countable,obsolete,transitive,uncountable
    — I bowse no lage, but a whole gage / Of this I'll bowse to you.
动词 v.
  1. To bind (someone) by pledge or security; to engage. transitive
    — Great debts / Wherein my time, sometimes too prodigal, / Hath left me gaged.
  2. Alternative spelling of gauge. US,alt-of,alternative,transitive
  3. To bet or wager (something). archaic,transitive
    — O doe not goe, this feaſt (I'le gage my life) / Is but a plot to trayne you to your ruine, / Be rul'd, you ſha'not goe.
  4. To deposit or give (something) as a pledge or security; to pawn. obsolete,transitive
    — A moiety competent / Was gaged by our king.

词形变化

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词源

词源 1
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.
词源 2
See gauge.
词源 3
Back-formation from greengage.
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