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gage
1[ geyj ]
noun
- something, as a glove, thrown down by a medieval knight in token of challenge to combat.
- Archaic. a challenge.
- Archaic. a pledge or pawn; security.
verb (used with object)
- Archaic. to pledge, stake, or wager.
gage
2[ geyj ]
noun
- (chiefly in technical use) gauge.
gage
3[ geyj ]
noun
Gage
4[ geyj ]
noun
- Thomas, 1721–87, British general in America 1763–76.
gage
1/ ɡeɪdʒ /
Gage
2/ ɡeɪdʒ /
noun
- GageThomas17211787MBritishMILITARY: generalPOLITICS: colonial administrator Thomas. 1721–87, British general and governor in America; commander in chief of British forces at Bunker Hill (1775)
gage
3/ ɡeɪdʒ /
noun
- old-fashioned.marijuana
gage
4/ ɡeɪdʒ /
noun
- something deposited as security against the fulfilment of an obligation; pledge
- (formerly) a glove or other object thrown down to indicate a challenge to combat
verb
- archaic.tr to stake, pledge, or wager
gage
5/ ɡeɪdʒ /
noun
- short for greengage
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Another, founded by Katie Packer Gage herself, WWP Strategies, pulled in $5.5 million that election.
That means six years, at least, of 30-hour gym days and, at Gage, $600-a-month training costs.
But Grimes estimates that there are roughly 20 girls at Gage training at elite levels, and writing those accompanying checks.
Pre-Travolta, she was also married for two years to actor Kevin Gage, who was in her 1986 movie SpaceCamp.
At the time, the LAPD appealed for help after a 15-year-old girl was sexually assaulted in the area of Hoover and Gage avenues.
Ce gage d'amitié plus qu'un autre me touche: Un serrement de main vaut dix serments de bouche.
I fancied that, had he dared, he would have leaped into the room and taken his own part—and who could rightly gage what that was?
Governor Hutchinson was superseded by General Gage, who was sent out with four regiments.
People were by no means distressed, for they believed that Gage would soon take his revenge.
It should therefore have been Gage's first care to shut the insurgents out from those positions.
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