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  Adjustable Chisel-Gage. Wooden Bench-Plane
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  • v gage place a bet on "Which horse are you backing?","I'm betting on the new horse"
  • n gage a measuring instrument for measuring and indicating a quantity such as the thickness of wire or the amount of rain etc.
  • n gage street names for marijuana
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Setting a Marking-Gage

Using the Marking-Gage

Roller Mortise-Gage

Screw- and Wire-Gages. a. Screw-Gage. b. Wire-Gage. c. Twist-Drill-Gage

General Gage

• • Gage A glove, cap, or the like, cast on the ground as a challenge to combat, and to be taken up by the accepter of the challenge; a challenge; a defiance. "There I throw my gage ."
  • n Gage A measure or standard. See Gauge n.
  • Gage A pledge or pawn; something laid down or given as a security for the performance of some act by the person depositing it, and forfeited by nonperformance; security. "Nor without gages to the needy lend."
  • n Gage gāj A variety of plum; as, the greengage; also, the blue gage, frost gage, golden gage, etc., having more or less likeness to the greengage. See Greengage.
  • Gage To bind by pledge, or security; to engage. "Great debts
    Wherein my time, sometimes too prodigal,
    Hath left me gaged ."
  • Gage To give or deposit as a pledge or security for some act; to wage or wager; to pawn or pledge. "A moiety competent
    Was gaged by our king."
  • v. t Gage To measure. See Gauge v. t. "You shall not gage me By what we do to-night ."
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• • n gage A pledge or pawn; a movable chattel laid down or given as security for the performance of some act or the fulfilment of some condition.
  • n gage The act of pledging, or the state of being pledged; pawn; security.
  • n gage Anything thrown down as a token of challenge to combat; hence, challenge. Formerly it was customary for the challenger to cast on the ground some article, most commonly a glove or gauntlet, which was taken up by the accepter of the challenge. See gauntlet.
  • gage To pledge, pawn, or stake; give or deposit as a gage or security; wage or wager.
  • gage To bind by pledge, caution, or security; engage.
  • gage To measure the content or capacity of, as a vessel; more generally, to ascertain by test or measurement the capacity, dimensions, proportions, quantity, amount, or force of; measure or ascertain by measurement: as, to gage a barrel or other receptacle (see gaging); to gage the pressure of steam, or the force of the wind; to gage a stone for cutting it to the proper size.
  • gage To measure in respect to capability, power, character, or behavior; take cognizance of the capacity, capability, or power of; appraise; estimate: as, to gage a person's character very accurately.
  • gage In needlework, especially dressmaking, to pucker in parallel rows by means of gathering-threads, either for ornament or to hold the material firmly in place.
  • n gage A standard of measure; an instrument for determining the dimensions, capacity, quantity, force, etc., of anything; hence, any standard of comparison or estimation; measure in general: as, a gage for the thickness of wires; to take the gage of a man's ability.
  • n gage Specifically— In the air-pump, an instrument of various forms for indicating the degree of exhaustion in the receiver. The kind most commonly used is the siphon-gage (which see, below).
  • n gage In joinery, an instrument for striking a line on a board, etc., parallel to its edge, consisting of a square rod with a marker near its end and an adjustable sliding piece for a guide.
  • n gage In printing, a measure of the length of a page, or a graduated strip of wood, metal, or cardboard for determining the number of lines of type of a certain size in a given space.
  • n gage In type-founding, a piece of hard wood or polished steel, variously notched, used to adjust the dimensions, slopes, etc., of the various sorts of letters.
  • n gage Same as grip, 7. (See also caliber-gage, center-gage, gaging-rod, pressure-gage, rain-gage, steam-gage, wind-gage, and phrases below.)
  • n gage A standard or determinate dimension, quantity, or amount; a fixed or standard measurement. In railroad construction, the width or distance between the rails: as, standard, broad, or narrow gage. The standard gage is 4 feet 8½ inches. A greater distance between the rails constitutes a broad gage, a less distance a narrow gage.
  • n gage Nautical: The depth to which a vessel sinks in the water.
  • n gage The position of a ship with reference to another vessel and to the wind. When to the windward she is said to have the weather-gage; when to the leeward, the lee-gage.
  • n gage A quart pot.
  • n gage An instrument for measuring the diameter of the bore of a cannon at any part of its length. It consists of a graduated brass tube having at one end a head from which radiate two fixed and two movable steel points. A slider in the graduated tube pushes outward the movable points as may be necessary.
  • n gage A name given to several varieties of plum: as, the green gage, golden gage, transparent gage, etc.
  • gage To adjust the proper quantity of water to be used in mixing hydraulic cement.
  • n gage A pipeful of tobacco.
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• • n Gage gāj a pledge: something thrown down as a challenge, as a glove
  • v.t Gage to bind by pledge or security: offer as a guarantee: to stake, wager
  • Gage . See Gauge.
  • n Gage gāj name applied to several varieties of plum.
  • n Gage a measuring-rod: a standard of measure: estimate
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