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Raregages
The correct spelling is gages.
How to pronounce gages
noun
Say it like: Gaj-es
The correct spelling is gages. 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.”
Definition
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 subspecies of plum, Prunus domestica subsp. italica.
- 4.A measure; a standard of measure; an instrument to determine dimensions, distance, or capacity; a standard
- 5.An act of measuring.
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