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Word: gage
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Meaning:
Noun:
- A form of jewelry which creates a hole of variable size in the earlobe, popular especially among some young people in the West, perhaps on analogy with similar devices found in various non-Western indigenous cultures.
- gauge Used especially as a technical term of measuring devices and standard measures.
- A short form of greengage.
- obsolete Something valuable deposited as a guarantee or pledge; security, ransom.
- Something, such as a glove or other pledge thrown down as a challenge to combat.
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Proper noun:
- male|from=surnames, modern transferred use of the surname.
- from=Middle English
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Verb:
- gauge To measure.
- archaic To wager, to bet.
- obsolete To give or deposit as a pledge or security; to pawn
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