From en.wiktionary.org:
[Gage]
** English
[wikipedia]
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Etymology 1
[en] From [en], from later [en] or early [en], (also [fro] in Old French)
[frm], ultimately from [en], from [en] (whence [en]). [en], from the same
origin through the Old Northern French variant [fro]. See also [en].
**** Verb
[en-verb] [en]
1. To bind (someone) by pledge or security ; to engage .
2. * [act=I]
3. [en] To bet or wager (something).
4. * [sig=I2]
5. [en] To deposit or give (something) as a pledge or security; to pawn .
6. * [act=I]
**** Noun
[en-noun]
1. Something, such as a glove or other pledge , thrown down as a challenge to combat (now usually figurative).
2. * [passage=“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…]
3. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1988 | author=James McPherson | title=Battle Cry for Freedom | page=166 | publisher=Oxford | year_published=2003
|passage=The GAGE was down for a duel that would split the Democratic party
and ensure the election of a Republican president in 1860.}}
1. [en] Something valuable deposited as a guarantee or pledge ; security , ransom .
2. * [passage= [ 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.]
***** Translations
[challenge to combat]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
[trans-bottom]
*** Etymology 2
See [en].
**** Noun
[en-noun]
1. [en] [en] .
***** Derived terms
[en]
**** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] [en] .
***** Usage notes
The spelling _gage_ is encountered primarily in American English, but even
there it is less common than the spelling _gauge_.
***** Derived terms
[en]
***** Translations
[gauge]
*** Etymology 3
[en].
**** Noun
[en-noun]
1. A subspecies of plum , [Prunus domestica subsp. italica] .
***** Derived terms
{{col|en|goldengage |blue gage |frost gage |golden gage |greengage }}
***** Translations
[_Prunus domestica _ subsp. _italica_]
*** Etymology 4
**** Noun
[~]
1. [en] Marijuana
2. * [date=1951-12-20]
3. * [page=62]
4. [en] A pint pot . [18th–19th c.c.]
5. [en] A drink . [from 19th c.]
6. [en] A tobacco pipe . [mid 17th–early 19th c.]
7. * [en]
8. [en] A chamber pot . [19th c.]
9. [en] A small quantity of anything. [19th c.]
10. * [en]
11. [en] A quart pot . [15th–19th c.]
12. * [en]
13. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1747 | year_published=2001 | author=Helen Berry | quotee=Anonymous |
title=The Life and Character of Moll King, late mistress of King's Coffee
House in Covent Garden| quoted_in="Rethinking Politeness in Eighteenth-Century
England", _Transactions of the Royal Historical Society_| page=75, volume 11,
series 6 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LkwBzKThC9EC&pg=PA75|
passage=_Harry_. To pay, Moll, for I must hike.<br>_Moll_. Did you call me,
Master?<br>_Harry_. Ay, to pay, in a Whiff.<br>_Moll_. Let me see. There's
a Grunter's Gig, is a Si-Buxom; two Cat's Heads, a Win; a Double GAGE of Rum
Slobber, is Thrums; and a Quartern of Max, is three Megs: — That makes a
Traveller all but a Meg.<br>_Harry_. Here, take your Traveller, and tip the
Meg to the Kinchin.}}
[en]
** Dutch
*** Etymology
Borrowed from [nl].
*** Pronunciation
- [nl]
- [nl]
- [nl]
- [nl]
*** Noun
[m]
1. wage for work performed [in particular for a performance by performing artists]
**** Related terms
- [nl]
**** Descendants
- [jv]
- [ms]
- [nl]
- [pey]
** French
*** Pronunciation
- [fr-IPA]
- [fr]
- [fr]
- [fr]
*** Etymology 1
[fr], from [fr], [fro], from [fr] (attested in the [Reichenau Glossary]), from
[fr].
**** Noun
[m]
1. pledge , guarantee
2. [fr] deposit , security , guaranty [guarantee that debt will be paid; property relinquished to ensure this]
3. forfeit [something deposited as part of a game]
4. proof , evidence , assurance
5. [fr] wages , salary
***** Derived terms
- [fr]
- [fr]
***** Related terms
- [fr]
***** Descendants
- [nl]
- [de] [see desc]
*** Etymology 2
**** Verb
[fr]
1. [fr]
*** Further reading
- [R:fr:TLFi]
** Middle English
*** Etymology 1
**** Noun
[enm]
1. [enm]
*** Etymology 2
**** Noun
[enm]
1. [enm]
*** Etymology 3
From [enm], from [enm], from [enm]. [enm].
**** Pronunciation
- [enm]
**** Noun
[enm]
1. A security , surety , or bond .
2. A formal declaration of combat .
3. [enm] Money for the release of a hostage .
***** Descendants
- [en]
***** References
- [entry=gāǧe ]
** Old French
*** Alternative forms
- [fro]
*** Etymology
From [fro].
*** Noun
[m]
1. wage (regular remuneration)
2. [fro] payment
3. * [fro] < !--more literally "that will be payment for my lord that you have killed. Mglovesfun ( talk ) 18:21, 26 August 2013 (UTC)-->
**** Descendants
- [frm]
- [fr]
- [enm]
- [en]
- [der=1]
- [frm]
- [fr]
- [enm]
- [en]
- [fro]
- [fr]
- [pms]