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The correct spelling is gage.
How to pronounce gage
/ɡeɪd͡ʒ/
nounIPA: /ɡeɪd͡ʒ/
Say it like: Gaj-e
The correct spelling is gage. Something, such as a glove or other pledge, thrown down as a challenge to combat (now usually figurative). For example: "A vessel has the weather gauge of another when on the windward side of it, and the lee gauge when on the lee side of it."
Usage Examples
“A vessel has the weather gauge of another when on the windward side of it, and the lee gauge when on the lee side of it.”
Meanings
noun
- 1.Something, such as a glove or other pledge, thrown down as a challenge to combat (now usually figurative).
- 2.Something valuable deposited as a guarantee or pledge; security, ransom.
- 3.A measure; a standard of measure; an instrument to determine dimensions, distance, or capacity; a standard
- 4.An act of measuring.
- 5.An estimate.
verb
- 1.To give or deposit as a pledge or security; to pawn.
- 2.To wager, to bet.
- 3.To bind by pledge, or security; to engage.
- 4.To measure or determine with a gauge; to measure the capacity of.
- 5.To estimate.
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